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astro-ph.IM2020★ 415 cited

Sensitivity and Performance of the Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Third Observing Run

LIGO Instrument Science List, :, A. Buikema +197

On April 1st, 2019, the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (aLIGO), joined by the Advanced Virgo detector, began the third observing run, a year-long dedi…

physics.ins-det2020★ 18 cited

Improving the Robustness of the Advanced LIGO Detectors to Earthquakes

Eyal Schwartz, A Pele, J Warner +196

Teleseismic, or distant, earthquakes regularly disrupt the operation of ground--based gravitational wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO. Here, we present \emph{EQ mode}, a new glo…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 112 cited

Reducing Scattered Light in LIGO's Third Observing Run

S Soni, C Austin, A Effler +195

Noise due to scattered light has been a frequent disturbance in the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors, hindering the detection of gravitational waves. The non stationary s…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 220 cited

Neutron Star Extreme Matter Observatory: A kilohertz-band gravitational-wave detector in the global network

K. Ackley, V. B. Adya, P. Agrawal +160

Gravitational waves from coalescing neutron stars encode information about nuclear matter at extreme densities, inaccessible by laboratory experiments. The late inspiral is influen…

quant-ph2020★ 202 cited

Quantum correlations between the light and kilogram-mass mirrors of LIGO

Haocun Yu, L. McCuller, M. Tse +196

Measurement of minuscule forces and displacements with ever greater precision encounters a limit imposed by a pillar of quantum mechanics: the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. A l…

astro-ph.IM2020★ 201 cited

A Cryogenic Silicon Interferometer for Gravitational-wave Detection

Rana X Adhikari, Odylio Aguiar, Koji Arai +108

The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by LIGO has opened the era of gravitational wave astronomy, revealing a previously hidden side of the cosmos. To ma…