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LIGO Event Discoveries

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs
December 2018
GW170608: Observation of a 19 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence
December 2017
GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
October 2017
Multi-messenger Observations of a Binary Neutron Star Merger
October 2017
GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
October 2017

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Materials

High Precision Detection of Change in Intermediate Range Order of Amorphous Zirconia-Doped Tantala Thin Films Due to Annealing
July 2019
Bulk and shear mechanical loss of titania-doped tantala
August 2018
Effect of elevated substrate temperature deposition on the mechanical losses in tantala thin film coatings
February 2018
Cryogenic mechanical loss of a single-crystalline GaP coating layer for precision measurement applications
February 2017
Measurement and modeling of short and medium range order in amorphous Ta2O5 thin films
August 2016

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Seismic Isolation

Cryogenically cooled ultra low vibration silicon mirrors for gravitational wave observatories
December 2016
Seismic isolation of Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors: Review
August 2015
Advanced LIGO two-stage twelve-axis vibration isolation and positioning platform. Part 1: Design and production overview
April 2015
Advanced LIGO two-stage twelve-axis vibration isolation and positioning platform. Part 2: Experimental investigation and tests results
April 2015
Noise and control decoupling of Advanced LIGO suspensions
December 2014

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LIGO System Design

The LSC-Virgo White Paper on Instrument Science (2018 Edition)
June 2018
Advanced LIGO
March 2015
Advanced LIGO Systems Design
February 2015

Collaborators

LIGO Scientific Collaboration  |  SPRC  |  SU2P  |  SLAC