Category:LIGO

**Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory**
	gravitational wave detector The LIGO Livingston control room as it was during Advanced LIGO's first observing run (O1)
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Instance of	gravitational-wave detector;
Location	Hanford Site; Livingston; Washington; Hanford; United States of America;
Operator	LIGO Scientific Collaboration;
Has part(s)	LIGO Livingston Observatory; LIGO Hanford Observatory;
Founded by	Kip S. Thorne; Ronald Drever; Rainer Weiss;
Service entry	23 August 2002;
Significant event	construction (1994–2002);
Length	4,000 m;
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	46° 27′ 18.5″ N, 119° 24′ 27.6″ W
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	Q255371; ISNI: 0000000404536240; VIAF ID: 9150262704705720336; GND ID: 7739546-3; Library of Congress authority ID: nb2017015816
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Subcategories

This category has the following 10 subcategories, out of 10 total.

D

Ronald Drever‎ (1 C, 4 F)

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GEO600‎ (13 F)
GW150914‎ (1 C, 18 F)
GW151226‎ (2 F)
GW170104‎ (4 F)
GW170814‎ (3 F)
GW170817‎ (41 F)
GW190814‎ (1 C)

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LIGO (Hanford)‎ (54 F)
LIGO (Livingston)‎ (7 F)

Media in category "LIGO"

The following 36 files are in this category, out of 36 total.

AdvLIGO noise curve.webp 765 × 545; 86 KB
Baffled LIGO Scientists.jpg 6,000 × 4,000; 11.21 MB
Black holes ringing in space (iau1602a).jpg 2,400 × 3,000; 806 KB
Black holes ringing in space (iau1602a).tif 2,400 × 3,000; 2.5 MB
Gravity Wave Detectors (ASTER).jpg 1,200 × 400; 101 KB
GW170608 spectrograms.png 4,050 × 4,068; 866 KB
GW170817 glitch.png 1,097 × 1,177; 765 KB
Initial and Enhanced and Advanced LIGO schematics zh.png 1,277 × 950; 66 KB
Initial and Enhanced LIGO schematics zh.png 1,277 × 900; 48 KB
Initial and Enhanced LIGO schematics.png 1,277 × 900; 53 KB
LIGO control.jpg 1,600 × 1,200; 445 KB
LIGO detector sensitivity curve.png 1,000 × 637; 61 KB
LIGO Frequency-dependent squeezing noise.png 434 × 270; 82 KB
LIGO logo.png 78 × 78; 4 KB
LIGO schematic (multilang).svg 1,125 × 675; 12 KB
LIGO simplified.svg 1,300 × 950; 51 KB
LIGO Strain Sentivities (S1-S5).jpg 725 × 600; 237 KB
Ligo-interferometer-(destructive-interference).png 1,920 × 1,090; 1.93 MB
LIGO-LISA.jpg 1,024 × 709; 278 KB
LIGO-NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center.jpg 982 × 562; 94 KB
Ligo.gif 443 × 264; 7 KB
Ligo20170927d Gravitational waves detected by LIGO.png 6,877 × 4,611; 250 KB
LigoMirror.jpg 2,832 × 4,256; 4.25 MB
LIGOsensitivity.png 720 × 720; 365 KB
LLO Control Room.jpg 7,080 × 3,132; 5.56 MB
Nergis Mavalvala.jpg 2,928 × 2,848; 1.38 MB
Rana Adhikari (cropped).jpg 670 × 1,051; 67 KB
Rana Adhikari.jpg 1,536 × 2,048; 167 KB
Researchers announce LIGO detection of gravitational waves (27086096126).jpg 711 × 1,000; 524 KB
S6 O1 DS curves.png 631 × 403; 25 KB
Simplified diagram of an Advanced LIGO detector(zh-hans).png 800 × 525; 85 KB
Simplified diagram of an Advanced LIGO detector(zh-hant).png 800 × 525; 116 KB
Simplified diagram of an Advanced LIGO detector.png 800 × 525; 96 KB
The eye that looked through the new astronomy window.jpg 3,024 × 3,024; 1.7 MB
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi with the Scientists from LIGO, who proved gravitational waves theory, in Washington DC on March 31, 2016.jpg 1,833 × 1,400; 377 KB
Warped Space and Time Around Colliding Black Holes.webm 1 min 14 s, 1,920 × 1,080; 18.75 MB