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The LIGO-India project is a collaboration between LIGO Laboratory and the LIGO-India consortium: Institute of Plasma Research, Gandhinagar; IUCAA (Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics), Pune and Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology, Indore.
Currently, the most sensitive ground-based laser interferometer is LIGO – the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. LIGO is famous as the site of the first confirmed detections of gravitational waves in 2015. LIGO has two detectors: one in Livingston, Louisiana; the other at the Hanford site in Richland, Washington.
The LIGO Hanford Control Room. As a young area of research, gravitational-wave astronomy is still in development; however, there is consensus within the astrophysics community that this field will evolve to become an established component of 21st century multi-messenger astronomy. [50]
Direct observation of gravitational waves, which commenced with the detection of an event by LIGO in 2015, [1] plays a key role in gravitational wave astronomy.LIGO has been involved in all subsequent detections to date, with Virgo joining in August 2017.
By definition, it can be seen as a source of noise in the detectors; the main challenge is to separate it from the other sources of noise, and measure its power spectral density. The easiest method for solving this issue is to look for correlations within a network of several detectors; the idea being that the noise related to the gravitational ...
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is a scientific collaboration of international physics institutes and research groups dedicated to the search for gravitational waves. History [ edit ]
This is a compilation of initialisms and acronyms commonly used in astronomy. Most are drawn from professional astronomy, and are used quite frequently in scientific publications. A few are frequently used by the general public or by amateur astronomers.
Drever, Thorne, Weiss, and the LIGO discovery team also received the Gruber Prize in Cosmology. [74] Drever, Thorne, and Weiss were also awarded the 2016 Shaw Prize in Astronomy [75] [76] and the 2016 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics. [77] Barish was awarded the 2016 Enrico Fermi Prize from the Italian Physical Society (Società Italiana di Fisica ...