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most citedLIGO: The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

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quant-ph2026

Observing and evading quantum back-action on a kilogram-scale oscillator

Begüm Kabagöz, Eric Oelker, Dhruva Ganapathy +203

Continuous quantum displacement measurements are fundamentally limited by a trade-off between readout imprecision and measurement back-action, constrained by the Heisenberg uncerta…

gr-qc2026

A Tale of Two Calibrators: Comparing Newtonian and Photon Calibration in Advanced LIGO after the Third Observing Run

Dana Jones, Michael P. Ross, Ling Sun +5

Precise calibration of LIGO's strain readout plays a vital role in our ability to extract information from gravitational-wave detections. We present a comparative analysis of two i…

physics.ins-det2026

Identifying Cost-Favorable Locations for Cosmic Explorer

Laurence Datrier, Geoffrey Lovelace, Tooba Ansar +19

Cosmic Explorer (CE) is a proposed next-generation gravitational-wave observatory that aims to extend our gravitational-wave vision to the edge of the observable universe. With a f…

astro-ph.IM2026

LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Parts of the Fourth Observing Run

J. Glanzer, A. F. Helmling-Cornell, A. Calafat +244

LIGO detector characterization efforts enabled the confident detection of gravitational waves from hundreds of compact binary coalescences during the fourth observing run. Reliable…

astro-ph.IM2026

LIGO A: Detector Design and Science Prospects Beyond A+

L. Sun, K. Kuns, B. J. J. Slagmolen +1153

We present the LIGO A detector concept, an upgrade for the LIGO observatories based on room-temperature interferometers beyond the fifth observing run (O5). Building on th…

astro-ph.IM2026

Narrow spectral artifact investigation and mitigation in LIGO data from the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run

E. Goetz, A. Neunzert, A. M. Knee +258

We present efforts to identify, characterize, and mitigate narrow spectral artifacts in LIGO detector data during the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run. Narrow spectral artifac…