LIGO

(Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ; LIGO

(Observatory) ; LIGO Lab)

started 1984

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.

Monographs from CaltechAUTHORS

• Abadie, J.; Abbott, B. P.; et al. (2023) Sensitivity to Gravitational Waves from Compact Binary Coalescences Achieved during LIGO’s Fifth and Virgo’s First Science Run; 10.48550/arXiv.1003.2481
• Kumar, Rajesh; Dexheimer, Veronica; et al. (2023) Theoretical and Experimental Constraints for the Equation of State of Dense and Hot Matter
• Lovato, Alessandro; Dore, Travis; et al. (2023) Long Range Plan: Dense matter theory for heavy-ion collisions and neutron stars
• Sorensen, Agnieszka; Agarwal, Kshitij; et al. (2023) Dense Nuclear Matter Equation of State from Heavy-Ion Collisions
• Whitcomb, Stanley E. (2023) Optical Pathlength Fluctuations in an Interferometer Due to Residual Gas
• Weiss, Rainer; Zucker, Michael E.; et al. (2023) Optical Pathlength Noise in Sensitive Interferometers Due to Residual Gas
• Davis, Derek; Trevor, Max; et al. (2022) Incorporating information from LIGO data quality streams into the PyCBC search for gravitational waves; 10.48550/arXiv.2204.03091
• Magee, Ryan and Borhanian, Ssohrab (2022) Realistic observing scenarios for the next decade of early warning detection of binary neutron stars; 10.48550/arXiv.2201.11841
• Abbott, R.; Abe, H.; et al. (2022) All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo O3 data; 10.48550/arXiv.2201.00697
• Abbott, R.; Abe, H.; et al. (2022) Tests of General Relativity with GWTC-3; 10.48550/arXiv.2112.06861
• Abbott, R.; Abe, H.; et al. (2022) Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs; 10.48550/arXiv.2111.13106
• Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; et al. (2022) GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run; 10.48550/arXiv.2111.03606
• Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; et al. (2022) All-sky, all-frequency directional search for persistent gravitational-waves from Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s first three observing runs; 10.48550/arXiv.2110.09834
• Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; et al. (2022) Search for subsolar-mass binaries in the first half of Advanced LIGO and Virgo’s third observing run; 10.48550/arXiv.2109.12197
• Kalogera, Vicky; Sathyaprakash, B. S.; et al. (2021) The Next Generation Global Gravitational Wave Observatory: The Science Book; 10.48550/arXiv.2111.06990
• Venugopalan, Gautam; Arai, Koji; et al. (2021) Global optimization of multilayer dielectric coatings for precision measurements; 10.48550/arXiv.2110.13437
• Abbott, R.; Abbott, T. D.; et al. (2021) GWTC-2.1: Deep Extended Catalog of Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run; 10.48550/arXiv.2108.01045
• Couvares, Peter; Bird, Ian; et al. (2021) Gravitational Wave Data Analysis: Computing Challenges in the 3G Era; 10.48550/arXiv.2111.06987
• Lo, Rico K. L. and Magaña Hernandez, Ignacio (2021) A Bayesian statistical framework for identifying strongly-lensed gravitational-wave signals; 10.48550/arXiv.2104.09339
• Kuns, Kevin A.; Yu, Hang; et al. (2020) Astrophysics and cosmology with a deci-hertz gravitational-wave detector: TianGO; 10.48550/arXiv.1908.06004
• Reitze, David; Adhikari, Rana X.; et al. (2020) Cosmic Explorer: The U.S. Contribution to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy beyond LIGO; 10.48550/arXiv.1907.04833
• Reitze, David; Abbott, Richard; et al. (2019) The US Program in Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Science: Contribution from the LIGO Laboratory; 10.48550/arXiv.1903.04615
• Singer, Leo P.; Goldstein, Daniel A.; et al. (2019) The Two LIGO/Virgo Binary Black Hole Mergers on 2019 August 28 Were Not Strongly Lensed; 10.48550/arXiv.1910.03601
• Sachdev, Surabhi; Caudill, Sarah; et al. (2019) The GstLAL Search Analysis Methods for Compact Binary Mergers in Advanced LIGO’s Second and Advanced Virgo’s First Observing Runs
• Li, Alvin K. Y.; Lo, Rico K. L.; et al. (2019) Targeted Sub-threshold Search for Strongly-lensed Gravitational-wave Events; 10.48550/arXiv.1904.06020
• Smith, Joshua R.; Adhikari, Rana X.; et al. (2019) Apparatus to Measure Optical Scatter of Coatings Versus Annealing Temperature; 10.48550/arXiv.1901.11400
• Isi, Maximiliano and Weinstein, Alan J. (2019) Probing gravitational wave polarizations with signals from compact binary coalescences; 10.48550/arXiv.1710.03794
• Tsai, Victor C.; Weinstein, Alan J.; et al. (2001) LIGO Physics Environmental Monitoring at the 40-meter Prototype