<h1 id="ligo"><a href="./">LIGO</a></h1> <h2 id="laser-interferometer-gravitational-wave-observatory-ligo">(Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ; LIGO</h2> <p>(Observatory) ; LIGO Lab)</p> <p>started 1984</p> <p>LIGO’s mission is to open the field of gravitational-wave astrophysics through the direct detection of gravitational waves. 1984: Founded as Caltech/MT project. 1999: LIGO inauguration ceremony.</p> <h3 id="book">Book</h3> <p>Sections from <a href="https://authors.library.caltech.edu">CaltechAUTHORS</a></p> <ul> <li>King, Peter (2021) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20211008-183532235">Laser Safety in LIGO</a>; ISBN 978-0-7354-2295-7; Laser Safety in Specialized Applications; American Institute of Physics: Melville, NY; 1-18; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735422957_005">10.1063/9780735422957_005</a></li> <li>Que, Zhiqiang; Wang, Erwei; et al. (2021) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20211124-181850211">Accelerating Recurrent Neural Networks for Gravitational Wave Experiments</a>; ISBN 978-1-6654-2701-2; 2021 IEEE 32nd International Conference on Application-specific Systems, Architectures and Processors (ASAP); IEEE: Piscataway, NJ; 117-124; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/asap52443.2021.00025">10.1109/asap52443.2021.00025</a></li> <li>Menoni, Carmen S.; Yang, Le; et al. (2021) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20220106-478439900">Survey of metal oxides for coatings of ultra-stable optical cavities</a>; ISBN 978-1-943580-91-0; 2021 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO); Optical Society of America: Washington, DC; Art. No. STu1C.7; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1364/cleo_si.2021.stu1c.7">10.1364/cleo_si.2021.stu1c.7</a></li> <li>Cao, Huy Tuong; Ng, Sebastian; et al. (2020) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20210611-081833239">Adhesive-free, high optical quality deformable mirror</a>; ISBN 9780646825045; 2020 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR); Optical Society of America: Washington, DC; Art. No. C5G-3; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1364/cleopr.2020.c5g_3">10.1364/cleopr.2020.c5g_3</a></li> <li>Beniwal, Deeksha; Cao, Huy T.; et al. (2019) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200102-124718201">Mid-IR laser for wavefront correction in gravitational wave detectors</a>; ISBN 9781510631403; AOS Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology (ACOFT) and Australian Conference on Optics, Lasers, and Spectroscopy (ACOLS) 2019; Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; Art. No. 112002C; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2540061">10.1117/12.2540061</a></li> <li>Coyne, Dennis (2018) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190823-134014281">Engineering behind the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) (Conference Presentation)</a>; ISBN 9781510619531; Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VII; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; Art. No. 1070016; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2312163">10.1117/12.2312163</a></li> <li>Gerosa, Davide; Vitale, Salvatore; et al. (2017) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190211-124222170">Reanalysis of LIGO black-hole coalescences with alternative prior assumptions</a>; ISBN 9781107192591; Gravitational Wave Astrophysics: Early Results from Gravitational Wave Searches and Electromagnetic Counterparts; Cambridge University Press: Cambridge; 22-28; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1017/s1743921318003587">10.1017/s1743921318003587</a></li> <li>Huerta, E. A.; Haas, Roland; et al. (2017) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180314-141950800">BOSS-LDG: A Novel Computational Framework That Brings Together Blue Waters, Open Science Grid, Shifter and the LIGO Data Grid to Accelerate Gravitational Wave Discovery</a>; ISBN 978-1-5386-2686-3; 2017 IEEE 13th International Conference on e-Science (e-Science); IEEE: Piscataway, NJ; 335-344; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2017.47">10.1109/eScience.2017.47</a></li> <li>Weitzel, Derek; Bockelman, Brian; et al. (2017) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170718-141613981">Data Access for LIGO on the OSG</a>; ISBN 978-1-4503-5272-7; Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2017 on Sustainability, Success and Impact - PEARC17; ACM: New York, NY; Art. No. 24; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/3093338.3093363">10.1145/3093338.3093363</a></li> <li>Watchi, Jennifer; Ding, Binlei; et al. (2016) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170224-075907420">Development of a high-resolution optical inertial sensor for sub-Hz seismic isolation</a>; ISBN 9789073802940; Proceedings of ISMA2016 International Conference on Noise and Vibration Engineering and USD2016 International Conference on Uncertainty in Structural Dynamics; Katholieke Universiteit: Heverlee, Belgium; 275-288</li> <li>Sigg, Daniel (2016) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180726-154710437">The advanced LIGO detectors in the era of first discoveries</a>; ISBN 9781510603110; Interferometry XVIII; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; Art. No. 996009; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2243115">10.1117/12.2243115</a></li> <li>Tso, Rhondale; Isi, Maximiliano; et al. (2016) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180627-125338743">Modeling the Dispersion and Polarization Content of Gravitational Waves for Tests of General Relativity</a>; ISBN 978-981-3148-49-9; CPT and Lorentz Symmetry - Proceedings of the Seventh Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry; World Scientific Publishing: Singapore; 205-208; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1142/9789813148505_0052">10.1142/9789813148505_0052</a></li> <li>Vajente, Gabriele (2014) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170622-134345762">Readout, Sensing, and Control</a>; ISBN 978-3-319-03791-2; Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves; Springer: Cham, Switzerland; 153-192; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03792-9_6">10.1007/978-3-319-03792-9_6</a></li> <li>Vajente, Gabriele (2014) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170622-075759340">Interferometer Configurations</a>; ISBN 978-3-319-03791-2; Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves; Springer: Cham, Switzerland; 57-95; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03792-9_3">10.1007/978-3-319-03792-9_3</a></li> <li>Phelps, Margot H.; Gushwa, Kaitlin E.; et al. (2013) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20140204-113308657">Optical contamination control in the Advanced LIGO ultra-high vacuum system</a>; ISBN 978-0-8194-9753-6; Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 2013; Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers: Bellingham, WA; Art. No. 88852E; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2047327">10.1117/12.2047327</a></li> <li>Williams, Roy (2013) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190507-101620789">Follow-up of LIGO-Virgo Observations of Gravitational Waves</a></li> <li>Singer, Leo (2013) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190507-101422046">The Needle in the Hundred-Square-Degree Haystack: from Fermi GRBs to LIGO Discoveries</a></li> <li>Perley, Daniel (2013) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190507-101243284">Burst of the Century? A Case Study of the Afterglow of Nearby Ultra-Bright GRB 130427A</a></li> <li>Nissanke, Samaya (2013) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190507-101046564">Hearing & Seeing the Violent Universe</a></li> <li>Michel, C.; Morgado, N.; et al. (2012) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161024-133349072">Realization of low-loss mirrors with sub-nanometer flatness for future gravitational wave detectors</a>; ISBN 9780819493019; Optical Systems Design 2012; Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; Art. No. 85501P; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.981766">10.1117/12.981766</a></li> <li>Williams, Roy D.; Barthelmy, Scott D.; et al. (2012) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161027-070424925">Responding to the Event Deluge</a>; ISBN 978-0-8194-9149-7; Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems IV; Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; Art. No. 84480R; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.925252">10.1117/12.925252</a></li> <li>Ramakrishnan, Arun; Singh, Gurmeet; et al. (2007) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20170419-154436528">Scheduling Data-Intensive Workflows onto Storage-Constrained Distributed Resources</a>; ISBN 0-7695-2833-3; Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid ’07); IEEE: Piscataway, NJ; 401-409; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2007.101">10.1109/CCGRID.2007.101</a></li> <li>Galdi, Vincenzo; Castaldi, Giuseppe; et al. (2006) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191106-145502567">Analytic structure and generalized duality relations for a family of hyperboloidal beams and supporting mirrors of potential interest for future gravitational wave detection interferometers</a>; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.679412">10.1117/12.679412</a></li> <li>Agresti, Juri; Castaldi, Giuseppe; et al. (2006) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190710-152530987">Optimized multilayer dielectric mirror coatings for gravitational wave interferometers</a>; ISBN 9780819463654; Advances in Thin-Film Coatings for Optical Applications III; Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; Art. No. 628608; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.678977">10.1117/12.678977</a></li> <li>Lazzarini, Albert (2005) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20110809-100203192">Direct searches for a cosmological stochastic gravitational wave background</a>; ISBN 0-7354-0295-7; Particles, Strings, and Cosmology; American Institute of Physics: Melville, NY; 87-93; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1063/1.2149681">10.1063/1.2149681</a></li> <li>Singh, Gurmeet; Deelman, Ewa; et al. (2005) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20161219-161801486">The Pegasus portal: web based grid computing</a>; ISBN 1-58113-964-0; SAC ’05 Proceedings of the 2005 ACM symposium on Applied computing; ACM: New York, NY; 680-686; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1145/1066677.1066834">10.1145/1066677.1066834</a></li> <li>Barriga, Pablo and Barton, Mark (2004) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190221-110528176">Status of ACIGA High Power Test Facility for advanced interferometry</a>; ISBN 9780819454324; Gravitational Wave and Particle Astrophysics Detectors; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 70-80; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.581300">10.1117/12.581300</a></li> <li>Miyakawa, Osamu; Kawamura, Seiji; et al. (2004) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190221-110523494">Sensing and control of the advanced LIGO optical configuration</a>; ISBN 9780819454324; Gravitational Wave and Particle Astrophysics Detectors; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 92-104; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552406">10.1117/12.552406</a></li> <li>Robertson, N. A.; Abbott, B.; et al. (2004) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190221-110524925">Seismic isolation and suspension systems for Advanced LIGO</a>; ISBN 9780819454324; Gravitational Wave and Particle Astrophysics Detectors; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 81-91; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.552469">10.1117/12.552469</a></li> <li>Harry, Gregory M.; Armandula, Helena; et al. (2004) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190221-110526711">Optical coatings for gravitational wave detection</a>; ISBN 9780819454652; Advances in Thin Film Coatings for Optical Applications; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 33-40; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.555780">10.1117/12.555780</a></li> <li>Sanders, Gary H. (2003) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190221-110514724">Status of LIGO</a>; ISBN 9780819446350; Gravitational-Wave Detection; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 247-257; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459097">10.1117/12.459097</a></li> <li>Márka, Szabolcs (2003) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190221-110514648">Merits of coincident observation of energetic cosmic events by astronomical and gravity wave observatories</a>; ISBN 9780819446350; Gravitational-Wave Detection; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 222-229; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.459091">10.1117/12.459091</a></li> <li>Camp, J. B.; Billingsley, G.; et al. (2002) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20190221-110517780">LIGO optics: initial and advanced</a>; ISBN 9780819444189; Laser-Induced Damage in Optical Materials: 2001; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 1-18; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.461689">10.1117/12.461689</a></li> <li>Deelman, Ewa; Kesselman, Carl; et al. (2002) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20191008-100648716">Applications of Virtual Data in the LIGO Experiment</a>; ISBN 978-3-540-43792-5; Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 23-34; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48086-2_3">10.1007/3-540-48086-2_3</a></li> <li>Oreb, Bob; Leistner, Achim; et al. (2001) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20181213-143631858">Interferometric measurement of refractive index inhomogeneity on polished sapphire substrates: application to LIGO-II</a>; ISBN 9780819441652; Optical Manufacturing and Testing IV; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 414-423; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.453639">10.1117/12.453639</a></li> <li>Barish, Barry C. (2001) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200212-152223047">Gravitational Waves</a>; ISBN 978-1-4020-0120-8; Cosmic Radiations: From Astronomy to Particle Physics; Springer: Dordrecht; 47-65; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0634-7_3">10.1007/978-94-010-0634-7_3</a></li> <li>DeSalvo, Riccardo (2000) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20181204-132724904">Interferometric gravitational wave detectors vibrational isolation</a>; ISBN 9780819437389; Current Developments in Lens Design and Optical Systems Engineering; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 98-106; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.405247">10.1117/12.405247</a></li> <li>Blackburn, Kent; Lazzarini, Albert; et al. (1999) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20200708-152256926">XSIL: Extensible scientific interchange language</a>; ISBN 9783540658214; High-Performance Computing and Networking; Springer: Berlin; 513-524; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/bfb0100612">10.1007/bfb0100612</a></li> <li>Savage, R. L., Jr. (1998) <a href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180801-112859946">Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project: overview and status</a>; ISBN 9780819427090; Methods for Ultrasensitive Detection; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE): Bellingham, WA; 2-13; <a href="https://doi.org/10.1117/12.308362">10.1117/12.308362</a></li> </ul>