This collection features the open access research of the Nobel Prize-winning LIGO project. Louisiana State University is a participant in this endeavor, which has detected the gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein over one hundred years ago in his General Theory of Relativity

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Submissions from 2004

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Searching for gravitational waves from binary inspirais with LIGO, Duncan A. Brown, Stanislav Babak, Patrick R. Brady, Nelson Christensen, Thomas Cokelaer, Jolien D.E. Creighton, Stephen Fairhurst, Gabriela González, Eirini Messaritaki, B. S. Sathyaprakash, et al.

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Vetoes for inspiral triggers in LIGO data, Nelson Christensen, Peter Shawhan, and Gabriela González

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Long-term study of the seismic environment at LIGO, E. J. Daw, J. A. Giaime, D. Lormand, M. Lubinski, and J. Zweizig

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Quantum interferometric sensors, Leo D. Didomenico, Hwang Lee, Pieter Kok, and Jonathan P. Dowling

Gravitational wave detectors: New eyes for physics and astronomy, Gabriela González

Search for inspiralling neutron stars in LIGO S1 data, Gabriela González

Status of LIGO data analysis, Gabriela González

Low frequency active vibration isolation for advanced LIGO, W. Hua, R. Adhikari, D. Debra, J. Giaime, G. Hammond, C. Hardham, M. Hennessy, J. How, B. Lantz, M. Macinnis, et al.

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Seismic isolation and suspension systems for advanced LIGO, N. A. Robertson, B. Abbott, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, G. Allen, H. Armandula, S. Aston, A. Baglino, M. Barton, B. Bland, et al.

Submissions from 2003

Calibration of the LIGO detectors for the first LIGO science run, Rana Adhikari, Gabriela González, Michael Landry, and Brian O'Reilly

Orientation studies of Si-phthalocyanine sulfonic acids cast on SiOx substrates, G. Appel, Harald Ade, A. G. Guerek, S. Stadler, R. P. Mikalo, and D. Schmeißer

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Feedforward reduction of the microseism disturbance in a long-base-line interferometric gravitational-wave detector, J. A. Giaime, E. J. Daw, M. Weitz, R. Adhikari, P. Fritschel, R. Abbott, R. Bork, and J. Heefner

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Limiting noises in gravitational wave detectors: Guidance from their statistical properties, Gabriela González

Submissions from 2002

Seismic isolation for advanced LIGO, R. Abbott, R. Adhikari, G. Allen, S. Cowley, E. Daw, D. DeBra, J. Giaime, G. Hammond, M. Hammond, C. Hardham, et al.

Resonant detectors and interferometers can work together, W. O. Hamilton, M. A. Burgamy, D. M. Busby, E. J. Daw, J. Duran, J. A. Giaime, J. Hanson, I. S. Heng, W. W. Johnson, M. P. McHugh, et al.

Allegro: Noise performance and the ongoing search for gravitational waves, I. S. Heng, E. Daw, J. Giaime, W. O. Hamilton, M. P. Mchugh, and W. W. Johnson

Submissions from 2001

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Readout and control of a power-recycled interferometric gravitational-wave antenna, Peter Fritschel, Rolf Bork, Gabriela González, Nergis Mavalvala, Dale Ouimette, Haisheng Rong, Daniel Sigg, and Michael Zucker

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Charge effects on gravitational wave detectors, R. F. O'Connell

Submissions from 2000

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Suspensions thermal noise in the LIGO gravitational wave detector, Gabriela González

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Close limit of grazing black hole collisions: Non-spinning holes, Gaurav Khanna, Reinaldo Gleiser, Richard Price, and Jorge Pullin

Submissions from 1996

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A passive vibration isolation stack for LIGO: Design, modeling, and testing, Joseph Giaime, Partha Saha, David Shoemaker, and Lisa Sievers