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Monday, October 16, 2017
First Observation of a Neutron Star with Gravitational Waves and Light!
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THE OBSERVATIONS At about 8:41 am EDT on 17 August 2017, both LIGO observatories recorded a 100-second long gravitational wave (GW) signal...
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Second Anniversary of the First Detection and a New Job!
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While posts here have been long awaited, I've been busy doing research, teaching, and changed my job! I've just started a new job a...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Merry Christmas, LIGO: Another Gravitational Wave!
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WE DETECTED ANOTHER GRAVITATIONAL WAVE! On the evening of Christmas day 2015, at 9:38 pm CST (3:38 am UTC) at the LIGO Livingston Observa...
Friday, April 8, 2016
The Source of GW150914: Stellar Mass Black Holes
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On September 14th, 2015, LIGO made the first direct detection of gravitational waves. This event is labeled GW150914 (referring to the y...
Thursday, February 11, 2016
LIGO Makes the First Direct Detection of Gravitational Waves
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On morning of 14 September 2015 at almost 4:51 am in Louisiana (09:50:45 UTC) the LIGO detectors in Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA detecte...
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
How We Monitor Data Collection with Advanced LIGO
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The first Advanced LIGO observing run (O1) started in mid-September and will end in mid-January. Today I want to tell you about how we coll...
Friday, July 31, 2015
First Science Data With Advanced LIGO is Near!
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It has been a very exciting time for Advanced LIGO recently. A few weeks ago we completed a test run of the instrument to identify any re...
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