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LIGO Observations

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
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2
June 2017

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Materials

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
Order, disorder and mixing: The atomic structure of amorphous mixtures of titania and tantala
February 2016
Medium range structural order in amorphous tantala spatially resolved with changes to atomic structure by thermal annealing
February 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 (2016-2017 edition)
October 2016
Advanced LIGO
March 2015
Advanced LIGO Systems Design
February 2015

Collaborators

LIGO Scientific Collaboration  |  SPRC  |  SU2P  |  SLAC