LIGO Scientific Collaboration
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| Formation | 1997[1] |
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| Headquarters | California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States |
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Membership
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991 scientists[2] |
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LSC Spokesperson
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Gabriela González |
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Executive Director of LIGO
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David Reitze |
| Award(s) | Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016) Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016) |
| Website | www.ligo.org |
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is a scientific collaboration of international physics institutes and research groups dedicated to the search for gravitational waves. The LSC was established in 1997, under the leadership of Barry Barish.[3] Its mission is to ensure equal scientific opportunity for individual participants and institutions by organizing research, publications, and all other scientific activities, and it includes scientists from both LIGO Laboratory and collaborating institutions. Barish appointed Rainer Weiss as the first spokesperson.
LSC members have access to the US-based Advanced LIGO detectors in Hanford, Washington and in Livingston, Louisiana, as well as the GEO 600 detector in Sarstedt, Germany. Under an agreement with the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), LSC members also have access to data from the Virgo detector in Pisa, Italy. While the LSC and the Virgo Collaboration are separate organizations, they cooperate closely and are referred to collectively as "LVC".[4]
The current LSC Spokesperson is Gabriela González from Louisiana State University. The Executive Director of the LIGO Laboratory is David Reitze from the University of Florida.
On 11 February 2016, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations[lower-alpha 1] announced that they succeeded in making the first direct gravitational wave observation on 14 September 2015.[5][6][7][8]
Collaboration members
Membership of LIGO Scientific Collaboration as of November 2015 is detailed in the table below.[2]
Notes
- ↑ The 11 February 2016 announcement team were Kip Thorne, David Reitze, Gabriela González, and Rainer Weiss.
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