Advanced LIGO by Aggarwal, Nancy, Barsotti, Lisa, Biscans, Sebastien, Bodiya, Timothy P., Brown, N. M., Buikema, Aaron, Essick, Reed Clasey, Isogai, Tomoki, Katsavounidis, Erotokritos, Lynch, Ryan Christopher, Matichard, Fabrice, Mavalvala, Nergis, Miller, John, Oelker, Eric Glenn, Tse, Maggie, Vaulin, Ruslan, Vitale, Salvatore, Weiss, Rainer, Wipf, Christopher C., Yam, William, Zhang, Fan, Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan, Shoemaker, David H, Zucker, Michael E, Fritschel, Peter K, Libson, Adam A., MacInnis, Myron E, Mittleman, Richard K, Donovan, Frederick J, Evans, Matthew J, Gras, Slawomir, Mason, Kenneth R

“…The Advanced LIGO gravitational wave detectors are second-generation instruments designed and built for the two LIGO observatories in Hanford, WA and Livingston, LA, USA. …”
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The Directional Isotropy of LIGO–Virgo Binaries by Maximiliano Isi, Will M. Farr, Vijay Varma

“…We demonstrate how to constrain the degree of absolute alignment of the total angular momenta of LIGO–Virgo binary black holes, looking for a special direction in space that would break isotropy. …”
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Frequency-Dependent Squeezing for Advanced LIGO by McCuller, L, Whittle, C, Ganapathy, D, Komori, K, Tse, M, Fernandez-Galiana, A, Barsotti, L, Fritschel, P, MacInnis, M, Matichard, F, Mason, K, Mavalvala, N, Mittleman, R, Yu, Haocun, Zucker, ME, Evans, M

“…The first detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 launched the era of gravitational-wave astronomy. …”
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Environmental noise in advanced LIGO detectors by Mavalvala, Nergis

“…The sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors to gravitational waves can be affected by environmental disturbances external to the detectors themselves. …”
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Baffle material characterization for Advanced LIGO by Hunt, Cassandra R

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Passive damping of a LIGO mirror by Antler, Natania

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DC readout experiment in Enhanced LIGO by Fricke, T. T., Abbott, Richard, Adhikari, Rana X., Dooley, K. L., Frolov, V. V., Kawabe, Keita, Slagmolen, Bram J. J., Kissel, Jeffrey S., Smith, Nicolas de Mateo, Evans, Matthew J, Fritschel, Peter K, Waldman, Samuel J.

“…As part of the upgrade to Enhanced LIGO, these modifications replaced the radio-frequency (RF) heterodyne system used previously. …”
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GASTROEZOFAGINIO REFLIUKSO LIGOS POVEIKIS BURNOS SVEIKATAI by Aušra Rudžianskienė, Marija Staniulytė

“…Tyrimo objektas – gastroezofaginio refliukso ligos poveikis burnos sveikatai. Tyrimo tikslas – nustatyti gastroezofaginio refliukso ligos poveikį burnos sveikatai. …”
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Physical approach to the marginalization of LIGO calibration uncertainties by Vitale, Salvatore, Haster, Carl-Johan, Sun, Ling, Farr, Ben, Goetz, Evan, Kissel, Jeff, Cahillane, Craig

“…The data from ground based gravitational-wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO and Virgo must be calibrated to convert the digital output of photodetectors into a relative displacement of the test masses in the detectors, producing the quantity of interest for inference of astrophysical gravitational wave sources. …”
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Characterization of an advanced LIGO quadruple pendulum system by Thomas, Andrew C. (Andrew Christopher), 1981-

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Experimental testing of LIGO vibration isolation system by Krull, Alexander G. (Alexander Gerhard)

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Recent Observations of Gravitational Waves by LIGO and Virgo Detectors by Andrzej Królak, Paritosh Verma

“…In this paper we present the most recent observations of gravitational waves (GWs) by LIGO and Virgo detectors. We also discuss contributions of the recent Nobel prize winner, Sir Roger Penrose to understanding gravitational radiation and black holes (BHs). …”
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Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves by Barsotti, Lisa, Biscans, Sebastien, Evans, M., Fernandez Galiana, Alvaro-Miguel, Fritschel, Peter K., Gras, Slawomir, MacInnis, Myron E., Martynov, Denis, Mason, K., Matichard, Fabrice, Mavalvala, Nergis, Miller, John, Mittleman, Richard K, Shoemaker, David H, Weiss, Rainer, Yu, Hang, Yu, Haocun, Zucker, Michael E

“…This paper presents an analysis of the transient behavior of the Advanced LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory) suspensions used to seismically isolate the optics. …”
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Achieving resonance in the Advanced LIGO gravitational-wave interferometer by Staley, A., Martynov, D., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R. X., Arai, K., Ballmer, S., Barsotti, Lisa, Brooks, A. F., DeRosa, R. T., Dwyer, S., Effler, A., Evans, M., Fritschel, Peter K, Frolov, V. V., Gray, C., Guido, C. J., Gustafson, R., Heintze, M., Hoak, D., Izumi, K., Kawabe, K., King, E. J., Kissel, J. S., Kokeyama, K., Landry, M., McClelland, D. E., Miller, J., Mullavey, A., O'Reilly, B., Rollins, J. G., Sanders, J. R., Schofield, R. M. S., Sigg, D., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Vajente, G., Ward, R. L., Wipf, Christopher C.

“…The arm length stabilization system is a new technique used for arm cavity locking in Advanced LIGO. Together with a modulation technique utilizing third harmonics to lock the central Michelson interferometer, the Advanced LIGO detector has been successfully locked and brought to an operating point where detecting gravitational-waves becomes feasible.…”
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Achieving resonance in the Advanced LIGO gravitational-wave interferometer by Staley, A., Martynov, D., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R. X., Arai, K., Ballmer, S., Barsotti, Lisa, Brooks, A. F., DeRosa, R. T., Dwyer, S., Effler, A., Evans, M., Fritschel, Peter K, Frolov, V. V., Gray, C., Guido, C. J., Gustafson, R., Heintze, M., Hoak, D., Izumi, K., Kawabe, K., King, E. J., Kissel, J. S., Kokeyama, K., Landry, M., McClelland, D. E., Miller, J., Mullavey, A., O'Reilly, B., Rollins, J. G., Sanders, J. R., Schofield, R. M. S., Sigg, D., Slagmolen, B. J. J., Smith-Lefebvre, N. D., Vajente, G., Ward, R. L., Wipf, Christopher C.

“…The arm length stabilization system is a new technique used for arm cavity locking in Advanced LIGO. Together with a modulation technique utilizing third harmonics to lock the central Michelson interferometer, the Advanced LIGO detector has been successfully locked and brought to an operating point where detecting gravitational-waves becomes feasible.…”
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LIGO detector characterization in the second and third observing runs by Mavalvala, Nergis

“…In this work, we present the methods used to characterize the LIGO detectors and curate the publicly available datasets, including the LIGO strain data and data quality products. …”
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Quantum noise reduction using squeezed states in LIGO by Dwyer, Sheila E. (Sheila Elizabeth)

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IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF GRB 051103 FROM LIGO OBSERVATIONS by Barnum, Sam, Barsotti, Lisa, Blackburn, Lindy L., Bodiya, Timothy Paul, Corbitt, Thomas R., Donovan, Frederick J., Dwyer, S., Evans, Matthew J., Foley, S., Fritschel, Peter K., Harry, Gregory, Hughey, B., Katsavounidis, Erotokritos, MacInnis, Myron E., Mason, Kenneth R., Matichard, Fabrice, Mavalvala, Nergis, Mittleman, Richard K., Shapiro, B., Shoemaker, David H., Smith, N. D., Soto, J., Stein, A. J., Waldman, S. J., Weiss, Rainer, Wipf, Christopher, Zucker, Michael E.

“…We present the results of a LIGO search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with GRB 051103, a short-duration hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically determined sky position is coincident with the spiral galaxy M81, which is 3.6 Mpc from Earth. …”
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Predicting Short-duration GRB Rates in the Advanced LIGO Volume by Tzvetelina A. Dimitrova, Nathaniel R. Butler, Srihari Ravi

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Lightsaber: A Simulator of the Angular Sensing and Control System in LIGO by Tomislav Andric, Jan Harms

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