LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

Author(s): B P Abbott , R Abbott , R Adhikari , P Ajith , B Allen , G Allen , R S Amin , S B Anderson , W G Anderson , M A Arain , M Araya , H Armandula , P Armor , Y Aso , S Aston , P Aufmuth , C Aulbert , S Babak , P Baker , S Ballmer , C Barker , D Barker , B Barr , P Barriga , L Barsotti , M A Barton , I Bartos , R Bassiri , M Bastarrika , B Behnke , M Benacquista , J Betzwieser , P T Beyersdorf , I A Bilenko , G Billingsley , R Biswas , E Black , J K Blackburn , L Blackburn , D Blair , B Bland , T P Bodiya , L Bogue , R Bork , V Boschi , S Bose , P R Brady , V B Braginsky , J E Brau , D O Bridges , M Brinkmann , A F Brooks , D A Brown , A Brummit , G Brunet , A Bullington , A Buonanno , O Burmeister , R L Byer , L Cadonati , J B Camp , J Cannizzo , K C Cannon , J Cao , L Cardenas , S Caride , G Castaldi , S Caudill , M Cavaglià , C Cepeda , T Chalermsongsak , E Chalkley , P Charlton , S Chatterji , S Chelkowski , Y Chen , N Christensen , C T Y Chung , D Clark , J Clark , J H Clayton , T Cokelaer , C N Colacino , R Conte , D Cook , T R C Corbitt , N Cornish , D Coward , D C Coyne , J D E Creighton , T D Creighton , A M Cruise , R M Culter , A Cumming , L Cunningham , S L Danilishin , K Danzmann , B Daudert , G Davies , E J Daw , D DeBra , J Degallaix , V Dergachev , S Desai , R DeSalvo , S Dhurandhar , M Díaz , A Dietz , F Donovan , K L Dooley , E E Doomes , R W P Drever , J Dueck , I Duke , J-C Dumas , J G Dwyer , C Echols , M Edgar , A Effler , P Ehrens , E Espinoza , T Etzel , M Evans , T Evans , S Fairhurst , Y Faltas , Y Fan , D Fazi , H Fehrmenn , L S Finn , K Flasch , S Foley , C Forrest , N Fotopoulos , A Franzen , M Frede , M Frei , Z Frei , A Freise , R Frey , T Fricke , P Fritschel , V V Frolov , M Fyffe , V Galdi , J A Garofoli , I Gholami , J A Giaime , S Giampanis , K D Giardina , K Goda , E Goetz , L M Goggin , G González , M L Gorodetsky , S Goßler , R Gouaty , A Grant , S Gras , C Gray , M Gray , R J S Greenhalgh , A M Gretarsson , F Grimaldi , R Grosso , H Grote , S Grunewald , M Guenther , E K Gustafson , R Gustafson , B Hage , J M Hallam , D Hammer , G D Hammond , C Hanna , J Hanson , J Harms , G M Harry , I W Harry , E D Harstad , K Haughian , K Hayama , J Heefner , I S Heng , A Heptonstall , M Hewitson , S Hild , E Hirose , D Hoak , K A Hodge , K Holt , D J Hosken , J Hough , D Hoyland , B Hughey , S H Huttner , D R Ingram , T Isogai , M Ito , A Ivanov , B Johnson , W W Johnson , D I Jones , G Jones , R Jones , L Ju ,   P Kalmus , V Kalogera , S Kandhasamy , J Kanner , D Kasprzyk , E Katsavounidis , K Kawabe , S Kawamura , F Kawazoe , W Kells , D G Keppel , A Khalaidovski , F Y Khalili , R Khan , E Khazanov , P King , J S Kissel , S Klimenko , K Kokeyama , V Kondrashov , R Kopparapu , S Koranda , D Kozak , B Krishnan , R Kumar , P Kwee , P K Lam , M Landry , B Lantz , A Lazzarini , H Lei , M Lei , N Leindecker , I Leonor , C Li , H Lin , P E Lindquist , T B Littenberg , N A Lockerbie , D Lodhia , M Longo , M Lormand , P Lu , M Lubinski , A Lucianetti , H Lück , B Machenschalk , M MacInnis , M Mageswaran , K Mailand , I Mandel , V Mandic , S Márka , Z Márka , A Markosyan , J Markowitz , E Maros , I W Martin , R M Martin , J N Marx , K Mason , F Matichard , L Matone , R A Matzner , N Mavalvala , R McCarthy , D E McClelland , S C McGuire , M McHugh , G McIntyre , D J A McKechan , K McKenzie , M Mehmet , A Melatos , A C Melissinos , D F Menéndez , G Mendell , R A Mercer , S Meshkov , C Messenger , M S Meyer , J Miller , J Minelli , Y Mino , V P Mitrofanov , G Mitselmakher , R Mittleman , O Miyakawa , B Moe , S D Mohanty , S R P Mohapatra , G Moreno , T Morioka , K Mors , K Mossavi , C MowLowry , G Mueller , H Müller-Ebhardt , D Muhammad , S Mukherjee , H Mukhopadhyay , A Mullavey , J Munch , P G Murray , E Myers , J Myers , T Nash , J Nelson , G Newton , A Nishizawa , K Numata , J O'Dell , B O'Reilly , R O'Shaughnessy , E Ochsner , G H Ogin , D J Ottaway , R S Ottens , H Overmier , B J Owen , Y Pan , C Pankow , M A Papa , V Parameshwaraiah , P Patel , M Pedraza , S Penn , A Perraca , V Pierro , I M Pinto , M Pitkin , H J Pletsch , M V Plissi , F Postiglione , M Principe , R Prix , L Prokhorov , O Punken , V Quetschke , F J Raab , D S Rabeling , H Radkins , P Raffai , Z Raics , N Rainer , M Rakhmanov , V Raymond , C M Reed , T Reed , H Rehbein , S Reid , D H Reitze , R Riesen , K Riles , B Rivera , P Roberts , N A Robertson , C Robinson , E L Robinson , S Roddy , C Röver , J Rollins , J D Romano , J H Romie , S Rowan , A Rüdiger , P Russell , K Ryan , S Sakata , L Sancho de la Jordana , V Sandberg , V Sannibale , L Santamaría , S Saraf , P Sarin , B S Sathyaprakash , S Sato , M Satterthwaite , P R Saulson , R Savage , P Savov , M Scanlan , R Schilling , R Schnabel , R Schofield , B Schulz , B F Schutz , P Schwinberg , J Scott , S M Scott , A C Searle , B Sears , F Seifert , D Sellers , A S Sengupta , A Sergeev , B Shapiro , P Shawhan , D H Shoemaker , A Sibley , X Siemens , D Sigg , S Sinha , A M Sintes , B J J Slagmolen , J Slutsky , J R Smith , M R Smith , N D Smith , K Somiya , B Sorazu , A Stein , L C Stein , S Steplewski , A Stochino , R Stone , K A Strain , S Strigin , A Stroeer , A L Stuver , T Z Summerscales , K-X Sun , M Sung , P J Sutton , G P Szokoly , D Talukder , L Tang , D B Tanner , S P Tarabrin , J R Taylor , R Taylor , J Thacker , K A Thorne , A Thüring , K V Tokmakov , C Torres , C Torrie , G Traylor , M Trias , D Ugolini , J Ulmen , K Urbanek , H Vahlbruch , M Vallisneri , C Van Den Broeck , M V van der Sluys , A A van Veggel , S Vass , R Vaulin , A Vecchio , J Veitch , P Veitch , C Veltkamp , A Villar , C Vorvick , S P Vyachanin , S J Waldman , L Wallace , R L Ward , A Weidner , M Weinert , A J Weinstein , R Weiss , L Wen , S Wen , K Wette , J T Whelan , S E Whitcomb , B F Whiting , C Wilkinson , P A Willems , H R Williams , L Williams , B Willke , I Wilmut , L Winkelmann , W Winkler , C C Wipf , A G Wiseman , G Woan , R Wooley , J Worden , W Wu , I Yakushin , H Yamamoto , Z Yan , S Yoshida , M Zanolin , J Zhang , L Zhang , C Zhao , N Zotov , M E Zucker , H zur Mühlen , J Zweizig

Publication date (Electronic): June 30 2009

Journal: Reports on Progress in Physics

Publisher: IOP Publishing