Gravitational-wave observations by advanced LIGO and VIRGO

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Abstract

From September 2015 until August 2017, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors conducted their first two observing runs O1 and O2. Since the milestone detection of gravitational waves from two coalescing black holes, GW150914, a further nine binary black holes collisions as well as one binary neutron star inspiral have been identified, firmly establishing the field of gravitational-wave astronomy. After a commissioning break, the third observing run commenced on April 1, 2019 which has since seen the public announcement of several tens of gravitational-wave candidate events. In this proceedings, we summarise the observations during O1 and O2 and briefly discuss the current status.

Original languageEnglish
Article number012218
JournalJournal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume1468
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 20 Mar 2020
Event16th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics, TAUP 2019 - Toyama, Japan
Duration: 9 Sept 201913 Sept 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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