Speaker
Michael Landry
(LIGO Hanford Observatory)
Description
Since October 2010, the LIGO observatory sites in Livingston LA and
Richland WA have been thoroughly occupied with the installation of second-generation
interferometric gravitational wave detectors, or Advanced LIGO. Increasingly however,
those sites are undergoing a phase transition. As more detector payloads are installed
and tested in-vacuum, we are entering new and more complex integration phases, in
which interferometric configurations resonating infrared laser light over tens of
meters or kilometers, are commissioned. In this Advanced LIGO status talk, we will
sketch installation progress and in particular, note the commissioned configurations
to date (lasers, suspended mode cleaners, dual-recycled Michelson and 4km
half-interferometer configurations). We close with some prospects for science-mode
running and potential gravitational wave detections.
Primary author
Michael Landry
(LIGO Hanford Observatory)
