Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) project: overview and status

摘要

Abstract: The LIGO Project is a joint effort between the California Institute of Technology and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to build and operate a novel astronomical observatory that directly senses gravitational waves, and in doing so open a new observational window to the universe. Installation of detector components is planned to begin in the spring of 1998 with the first data run at the designed strain sensitivity of h approximately 2 $MUL 10$+$MIN@23$/ m/$ROOT Hz scheduled to begin in 2002. !9