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unusual facts about gravitational wave detector



LIGO Scientific Collaboration

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is a collaboration by numerous physics institutes and research groups dedicated to the search for gravitational waves using the detectors LIGO and GEO 600.

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Under an agreement with the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), LSC members also have access to data from the Virgo detector, forming a joint effort informally known as the LSC-Virgo Collaboration.


see also

Elisa

Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA), a proposed configuration for a space based gravitational wave detector