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Each observatory supports an L-shaped ultra high vacuum system, measuring four kilometers (2.5 miles) on each side. Up to five interferometers can be set up in each vacuum system. The LIGO Livingston Observatory houses one laser interferometer in the primary configuration. This interferometer was successfully upgraded in 2004 with an active ...
To reach LIGO, search for “LIGO Hanford Observatory” on Google Maps. Or drive northwest from Richland on Highway 240 and turn right on Hanford Route 10 and drive about five miles.
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 Exploration Center or LExC (sounds like “Lexi”) is a Washington state-funded outreach center at the Richland observatory, aimed at K-12 students and the general public.
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Tours of the LIGO Hanford observatory are being planned the same day with tickets required. Ticket signup ends Oct. 13 and all tickets for tours of two of the four tour times are already gone.
It was published in 2020 that a gamma-ray burst was detected ~0.5 seconds after the LIGO trigger, lasting 6 seconds and bearing similarities to GRB170817 (such as weakness [most power in sub-100 keV, or soft X-rays) bands], elevated energetic photon background levels [signal exceeding background by less than a factor of 2], and similar ...
The Virgo Collaboration is part of the larger LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration, which gathers scientists from the other major gravitational-waves experiments to jointly analyse the data; this is crucial for gravitational-wave detection. [10] [11] LVK began in 2007 [5] as the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration, and was expanded when KAGRA joined in 2019.