Review of the advanced LIGO gravitational wave observatories leading to observing run four

C Cahillane, G Mansell - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Gravitational waves from binary black hole and neutron star mergers are being regularly
detected. As of 2021, 90 confident gravitational wave detections have been made by the …

GWTC-2: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We report on gravitational-wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between …

A horizon study for cosmic explorer: science, observatories, and community

M Evans, RX Adhikari, C Afle, SW Ballmer… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2021 - arxiv.org
This Horizon Study describes a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave
observatory: Cosmic Explorer. With ten times the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO, Cosmic …

Sensitivity and performance of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the third observing run

A Buikema, C Cahillane, GL Mansell, CD Blair… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
On April 1st, 2019, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
(aLIGO), joined by the Advanced Virgo detector, began the third observing run, a year-long …

Advanced ligo

J Aasi, BP Abbott, R Abbott, T Abbott… - … and quantum gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors are second-generation instruments
designed and built for the two LIGO observatories in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA, USA …

Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

J Aasi, J Abadie, BP Abbott, R Abbott… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Between July 2009 and October 2010, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave
Observatory (LIGO)[1] operated two 4 km laser interferometers as part of a global network …

Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors at the beginning of gravitational wave astronomy

DV Martynov, ED Hall, BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) consists of two widely
separated 4 km laser interferometers designed to detect gravitational waves from distant …

Gravitational-wave physics with Cosmic Explorer: Limits to low-frequency sensitivity

ED Hall, K Kuns, JR Smith, Y Bai, C Wipf, S Biscans… - Physical Review D, 2021 - APS
Cosmic Explorer is a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatory concept,
envisioned to begin operation in the 2030s and expected to be capable of observing binary …

[PDF][PDF] Advanced ligo

TLS Collaboration, JEA Aasi - Class. Quantum Gravity, 2015 - arxiv.org
The Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors are second generation instruments
designed and built for the two LIGO observatories in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA. The …

A micromechanical proof-of-principle experiment for measuring the gravitational force of milligram masses

J Schmöle, M Dragosits, H Hepach… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper addresses a simple question: how small can one make a gravitational source
mass and still detect its gravitational coupling to a nearby test mass? We describe an …