The ligo gravitational wave observatories: recent results and future plans

Harry, G.M. et al. (2005) The ligo gravitational wave observatories: recent results and future plans. In: Tenth Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MGM 10), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 20-26 Jul 2003, pp. 308-336. (doi: 10.1142/9789812704030_0023)

Abstract

The LIGO interferometers are operating as gravitational wave observatories, with a noise level near an order of magnitude of the goal and the first scientific data recently taken. This data has been analyzed for four different categories of gravitational wave sources; millisecond bursts, inspiralling binary neutron stars, periodic waves from a known pulsar, and stochastic background. Research and development is also underway for the next generation LIGO detector, Advanced LIGO.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Heptonstall, Dr Alastair and Grant, Mr Alastair and Cagnoli, Dr Gianpietro and Cantley, Dr Caroline and Rowan, Professor Sheila and Casey, Dr Morag and Barr, Dr Bryan and Robertson, Dr David and Plissi, Dr Michael and Woan, Professor Graham and Heng, Professor Ik Siong and Crooks, Dr David and Hough, Professor James and Ward, Professor Henry and Sneddon, Dr Peter and Newton, Dr Gavin and Torrie, Dr Calum and Strain, Professor Kenneth and Skeldon, Dr Kenneth and Killow, Dr Christian and Pitkin, Dr Matthew
• Authors: Harry, G.M., Adhikari, R., Ballmer, S., Bayer, K., Betzwieser, J., Bochner, B., Burgess, R., Cadonati, L., Chatterji, S., Corbitt, T., Csatorday, P., Fritschel, P., Goda, K., Hefetz, Y., Katsavoundis, E., Lawrence, R., Macinnis, M., Marin, A., Mason, K., Mavalvala, N., Mittleman, R., Ottaway, D. J., Pratt, M., Regimbau, T., Richman, S., Rollins, J., Shoemaker, D. H., Smith, M., Van Putten, M., Weiss, R., Aulbert, C., Berukoff, S. J., Cutler, C., Grunewald, S., Itoh, Y., Krischnan, B., Machenschalk, B., Mohanty, S., Mukherjee, S., Naundorff, H., Papa, M. A., Schutz, B. F., Sintes, A. M., Williams, P. R., Colacino, C., Danzmann, K., Freise, A., Grote, H., Heinzel, G., Kawabe, K., Klovekorn, P., Lück, H., Mossavi, K., Nagano, S., Rüdiger, A., Schilling, R., Smith, J. R., Weidner, A., Willke, B., Winkler, W., Cusack, B. J., Mcclelland, D. E., Scott, S. M., Searle, A. C., Drever, R. W. P., Tinto, M., Williams, R., Buonanno, A., Chen, Y., Thorne, K. S., Vallisneri, M., Abbott, B., Anderson, S. B., Araya, M., Armandula, H., Asiri, F., Barish, B. C., Barnes, M., Barton, M. A., Bhawal, B., Billingsley, G., Black, E., Blackburn, K., Bogue, L., Bork, R., Busby, D., Cardenas, L., Chandler, A., Chapsky, J., Charlton, P., Coyne, D., Creighton, T. D., D'ambrosio, E., Desalvo, R., Ding, H., Edlund, J., Ehrens, P., Etzel, T., Evans, M., Farnham, D., Fine, M., Gillespie, A., Grimmett, D., Hartunian, A., Heefner, J., Hoang, P., Hrynevych, M., Ivanov, A., Jones, L., Jungwirth, D., Kells, W., King, C., King, P., Kozak, D., Lazzarini, A., Lei, M., Libbrecht, K., Lindquist, P., Liu, S., Logan, J., Lyons, T. T., Mageswaran, M., Mailand, K., Majid, W., Mann, F., Marka, S., Maros, E., Mason, J., Meshkov, S., Miyakawa, O., Miyoki, S., Mours, B., Nocera, F., Ouimette, D., Pedraza, M., Rao, S. R., Redding, D., Regehr, M. W., Reilly, K. T., Reithmaier, K., Robison, L., Romie, J., Rose, D., Russell, P., Salzman, I., Sanders, G. H., Sannibale, V., Schmidt, V., Sears, B., Seel, S., Shawhan, P., Sievers, L., Smith, M. R., Spero, R., Sumner, M. C., Sylvestre, J., Takamori, A., Tariq, H., Taylor, R., Tilav, S., Torrie, C., Tyler, W., Vass, S., Wallace, L., Ware, B., Webber, D., Weinstein, A., Wen, L., Whitcomb, S. E., Willems, P. A., Wilson, A., Yamamoto, H., Zhang, L., Zweizig, J., Ganezer, K.S., Babak, S., Balasubramanian, R., Churches, D., Davies, R., Sathyaprakash, B., Taylor, I., Christensen, N., Ebeling, C., Flanagan, É., Nash, T., Penn, S., Dhurandar, S., Nayak, R., Sengupta, A. S., Barker, D., Barker-Patton, C., Bland-Weaver, B., Cook, D., Gray, C., Guenther, M., Hindman, N., Landry, M., Lubinski, M., Matherny, O., Matone, L., McCarthy, R., Mendell, G., Moreno, G., Myers, J., Parameswariah, V., Raab, F., Radkins, H., Ryan, K., Savage, R., Schwinberg, P., Sigg, D., Vorvick, C., Worden, J., Abbott, R., Carter, K., Coles, M., Evans, T., Frolov, V., Fyffe, M., Gretarsson, A. M., Hammond, M., Hanson, J., Kern, J., Khan, A., Kovalik, J., Langdale, J., Lormand, M., O’Reilly, B., Overmier, H., Parameswariah, C., Riesen, R., Rizzi, A., Roddy, S., Sibley, A., Stapfer, G., Traylor, G., Watts, K., Wooley, R., Yakushin, I., Zucker, M., Chickarmane, V., Daw, E., Giaime, J. A., Gonzalez, G., Hamilton, W. O., Johnson, W. W., Wen, S., Zotov, N., McHugh, M., Whelan, J. T., Walther, H., Ageev, A., Bilenko, I. A., Braginsky, V. B., Mitrofanov, V. P., Tokmakov, K. V., Vyachanin, S. P., Camp, J. B., Kawamura, S., Belczynski, K., Grandclement, P., Kalogera, V., Kim, C., Nutzman, P., Olson, T., Yoshida, S., Beausoleil, R., Bullington, A., Byer, R. L., Debra, D., Fejer, M. M., Gustafson, E., Hardham, C., Hennessy, M., Hua, W., Lantz, B., Robertson, N. A., Saulson, P. R., Finn, L. S., Hepler, N., Owen, B. J., Rotthoff, E., Schlaufmann, K., Shapiro, C. A., Stuver, A., Summerscales, T., Sutton, P. J., Tibbits, M., Winjum, B. J., Anderson, W. G., Diaz, M., Johnston, W., Romano, J. D., Torres, C., Ugolini, D., Aufmuth, P., Brozek, S., Fallinck, C., Goßler, S., Heng, I.S., Heurs, M., Kötter, K., Leonhardt, V., Malec, M., Quetschke, V., Schrempel, M., Traeger, S., Weiland, U., Welling, H., Zawischa, I., Ingley, R., Messenger, C., Vecchio, A., Amin, R., Castiglione, J., Coldwell, R., Delker, T., Klimenko, S., Mitselmakher, G., Mueller, G., Rakhmanov, M., Reitze, D. H., Rong, H., Sazonov, A., Shu, Q. Z., Tanner, D. B., Whiting, B. F., Wise, S., Barr, B., Bennett, R., Cagnoli, G., Cantley, C., Casey, M., Crooks, D.R.M., Dupuis, R., Elliffe, E.J., Grant, A., Heptonstall, A., Hewitson, M., Hough, J., Jennrich, O., Killbourn, S., Killow, C., Mcnamara, P., Newton, G., Pitkin, M., Plissi, M., Robertson, D.I., Rowan, S., Skeldon, K., Sneddon, P., Strain, K.A., Ward, H., Woan, G., Chin, D., Gustafson, R., Riles, K., Brau, J. E., Frey, R., Ito, M., Leonor, I., Rahkola, R., Schofield, R., Strom, D., Butler, W. E., Allen, B., Brady, P. R., Brown, D. A., Creighton, J. D. E., Koranda, S., Ottewill, A., Siemens, X., Wiseman, A. G., and Bose, S.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Research Centre: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy > Institute for Gravitational Research