<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>
<p><a href="https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/"
class="uri">https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/</a></p>
<h3 id="combined-from-caltechthesis">combined from <a
href="https://thesis.library.caltech.edu">CaltechTHESIS</a></h3>
<ul>
<li>Anand, Shreya (2024) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06042024-064008692">Cosmic
Gold Mining: Hunting for the Astrophysical Sites of r-Process
Nucleosynthesis</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/145k-w841">10.7907/145k-w841</a></li>
<li>Lo, Ka Lok (Rico) (2024) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:08312023-190727801">Gravitational
Wave Exotica - Advancing the Search for Signatures of Exotic Compact
Objects and Gravitational Lensing from Data-Analysis and Theoretical
Perspectives</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/gycj-ch63">10.7907/gycj-ch63</a></li>
<li>Markowitz, Aaron Gregory (2024) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06022024-152003367">Interferometric
Precision Measurement with Macroscopic Silicon Optomechanics</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/wnm8-nb48">10.7907/wnm8-nb48</a></li>
<li>Li, Ka Yue Alvin (2024) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05242024-202843732">Probing
the Higher Redshift Universe by Studying Strong Lensing of Gravitational
Waves and Enhancing Search Sensitivity of the GstLAL Search
Pipeline</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/hc11-h960">10.7907/hc11-h960</a></li>
<li>Gupta, Anchal (2023) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06012023-001004673">Next-Generation
Technologies for Gravitational Wave Detectors</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/cg5p-kr27">10.7907/cg5p-kr27</a></li>
<li>Xiao, Liting (2023) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10202022-200320341">Searching
for Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences and Stochastic
Backgrounds in the LIGO–Virgo Detector Network</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/zgtx-0582">10.7907/zgtx-0582</a></li>
<li>Li, Xiang (2023) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:11022022-054918241">Topics
in Gravitational Wave Physics: Quantum Theory for Detector Improvement
and High-Precision Modeling of Binary Black Hole Ringdown Waveform</a>;
<a href="https://doi.org/10.7907/ks5c-zn93">10.7907/ks5c-zn93</a></li>
<li>Venugopalan, Gautam (2022) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06242021-042731868">Prototype
Interferometry in the Era of Gravitational Wave Astronomy</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/ttwp-1h12">10.7907/ttwp-1h12</a></li>
<li>Cahillane, Craig Russell (2021) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05102021-070729581">Controlling
and Calibrating Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/76jj-mr73">10.7907/76jj-mr73</a></li>
<li>Callister, Thomas Alfred, III (2020) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05262020-184547015">Searching
for the Astrophysical Gravitational-Wave Background and Prompt Radio
Emission from Compact Binaries</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/xthf-1p70">10.7907/xthf-1p70</a></li>
<li>Suter, Bethany Anne (2020) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10212021-181920642">Using
Graviton EFT and Massive Gravity to Compute Gravitational Potentials for
Black Hole Inspirals</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/jh6b-bt24">10.7907/jh6b-bt24</a></li>
<li>Gossan, Sarah Elizabeth (2019) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:01312019-123521450">Core-Collapse
Supernova Physics in the Multi-Messenger Era</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/ZF1A-6394">10.7907/ZF1A-6394</a></li>
<li>Isi Bañales, Maximiliano (2019) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:11042018-161928279">Fundamental
Physics in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: The Direct
Measurement of Gravitational-Wave Polarizations and Other Topics</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/S15R-3495">10.7907/S15R-3495</a></li>
<li>Korth, William Zachary (2019) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05292019-020613259">Mitigating
Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/4H7V-W213">10.7907/4H7V-W213</a></li>
<li>Quintero, Eric Antonio (2018) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10162017-190056286">Improving
the Performance and Sensitivity of Gravitational Wave Detectors</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/Z9DZ06HS">10.7907/Z9DZ06HS</a></li>
<li>Hall, Evan Drew (2017) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:01302017-113507797">Long-Baseline
Laser Interferometry for the Detection of Binary Black-Hole Mergers</a>;
<a href="https://doi.org/10.7907/Z9PG1PQ9">10.7907/Z9PG1PQ9</a></li>
<li>Handmer, Casey John (2015) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05282015-131606315">Gauge
Invariant Spectral Cauchy Characteristic Extraction of Gravitational
Waves in Computational General Relativity</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/Z9NP22DZ">10.7907/Z9NP22DZ</a></li>
<li>Martynov, Denis V. (2015) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05282015-142013480">Lock
Acquisition and Sensitivity Analysis of Advanced LIGO
Interferometers</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/Z9Q81B1F">10.7907/Z9Q81B1F</a></li>
<li>Driggers, Jennifer Clair (2015) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06052015-123753277">Noise
Cancellation for Gravitational Wave Detectors</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/Z94F1NNP">10.7907/Z94F1NNP</a></li>
<li>Singer, Leo Pound (2015) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:12102014-223122387">The
Needle in the 100 deg² Haystack: The Hunt for Binary Neutron Star
Mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/Z9ZP442V">10.7907/Z9ZP442V</a></li>
<li>Privitera, Stephen M. (2014) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05282014-160218103">The
Importance of Spin for Observing Gravitational Waves from Coalescing
Compact Binaries with LIGO and Virgo</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/Q6KC-1957">10.7907/Q6KC-1957</a></li>
<li>Hodge, Kari Alison (2014) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:06022014-104457554">The
Search for Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of Black Hole Binary
Systems in Data from the LIGO and Virgo Detectors. Or: A Dark Walk
through a Random Forest</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/HY26-2059">10.7907/HY26-2059</a></li>
<li>Patel, Pinkesh Kiritbhai (2011) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:09142010-170958877">Search
for Gravitational Waves from a Nearby Neutron Star Using Barycentric
Resampling</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/00AG-ZF69">10.7907/00AG-ZF69</a></li>
<li>Ward, Robert Lawrence (2010) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:05252010-134621351">Length
Sensing and Control of a Prototype Advanced Interferometric
Gravitational Wave Detector</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/20SX-2935">10.7907/20SX-2935</a></li>
<li>Keppel, Drew Garvin (2009) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05202009-115750">Signatures
and Dynamics of Compact Binary Coalescences and a Search in LIGO’s S5
Data</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/03MS-2W96">10.7907/03MS-2W96</a></li>
<li>Goggin, Lisa Maria (2008) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05232008-125947">A
Search for Gravitational Waves from Perturbed Black Hole Ringdowns in
LIGO Data</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/VKN2-K456">10.7907/VKN2-K456</a></li>
<li>Savov, Pavlin (2008) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:07152021-205059459">Topics
in Gravitational-Wave Physics</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/72z7-n083">10.7907/72z7-n083</a></li>
<li>Lovelace, Geoffrey Mark (2007) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05232007-115433">Topics
in Gravitational-Wave Physics</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/94TE-3B59">10.7907/94TE-3B59</a></li>
<li>Pan, Yi (2006) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05242006-025220">Topics
of LIGO Physics: Template Banks for the Inspiral of Precessing, Compact
Binaries, and Design of the Signal-Recycling Cavity for Advanced
LIGO</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/TJB1-PQ24">10.7907/TJB1-PQ24</a></li>
<li>O’Shaughnessy, Richard William (2004) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-08052003-161044">Topics
in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/4C1K-VZ17">10.7907/4C1K-VZ17</a></li>
<li>Rao, Shanti Raja (2003) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05092003-153759">Mirror
Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/5W0V-QB90">10.7907/5W0V-QB90</a></li>
<li>Purdue, Patricia Marie (2003) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:03062014-090212906">Topics
in LIGO-Related Physics: Interferometric Speed Meters and Tidal
Work</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/0YKJ-SW34">10.7907/0YKJ-SW34</a></li>
<li>Chen, Yanbei (2003) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05302003-044325">Topics
of LIGO Physics: Quantum Noise in Advanced Interferometers and Template
Banks for Compact-Binary Inspirals</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/VQH0-QA78">10.7907/VQH0-QA78</a></li>
<li>Evans, Matthew John (2002) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-12062004-115632">Lock
Acquisition in Resonant Optical Interferometers</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/N1J2-M098">10.7907/N1J2-M098</a></li>
<li>Vallisneri, Michele (2002) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05292002-113750">Modeling
and Detecting Gravitational Waves from Compact Stellar Objects</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/JN6M-BW40">10.7907/JN6M-BW40</a></li>
<li>Mason, James Edward (2001) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:04302012-152752095">Signal
Extraction and Optical Design for an Advanced Gravitational Wave
Interferometer</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/amrv-a028">10.7907/amrv-a028</a></li>
<li>Zucker, Michael Edward (1989) <a
href="https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechTHESIS:10252013-143448203">Experiments
with a Laser Interferometric Gravitational Wave Antenna</a>; <a
href="https://doi.org/10.7907/T5D0-4N31">10.7907/T5D0-4N31</a></li>
</ul>