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Apr 1998
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American Physical Society, APS/AAPT Joint April Meeting, April 18-21, 1998 Columbus, Ohio, abstract #R10.03
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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a joint project being undertaken by Caltech and MIT, aimed at detecting gravitational waves emitted from astrophysical sources. LIGO is presently under construction, and will include three power-recycled Michelson-type interferometers using Fabry-Perot arm cavities: two interferometers located at Hanford, Washington, with 2-km and 4-km arm lengths, and a single 4-km interferometer at Livingston Parish, Louisiana. By spring of 1998 construction will be about three-fourths complete, with detector installation beginning at the Hanford site. The initial interferometers should achieve the designed strain sensitivity of Δ L/L<10-21/√Hz over a bandwidth of ~ 40-400 Hz in 2001, at which point the first extended observing run will begin. This talk will review the LIGO detector and construction progress, new interferometer configurations and other ideas aimed at improving the instrument sensitivity, and the latest results on the prospects for observing the gravitational-wave signatures from gamma-ray burst sources.
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