LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Short description: International physics organization

LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Formation| 1997[1]
Headquarters| California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States

Membership

| 1200 scientists[2]

LSC Spokesperson

| Patrick Brady

Executive Director of LIGO

| David Reitze
Award(s)| Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2016)
Gruber Prize in Cosmology (2016)
Enrico Fermi Prize (2016)
Bruno Rossi Prize (2017)
Albert Einstein Medal (2017)
Princess of Asturias Award (2017)

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.

## Contents

* 1 History
* 2 Collaboration members
* 3 Notes
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## History

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 KAGRA observatory's collaboration has joined the LIGO-Virgo collective, and the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collective is called "LVK".

The current LSC Spokesperson is Patrick Brady of University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.[5] 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.[6][7][8][9]

In 2016, Barish received the Enrico Fermi Prize "for his fundamental contributions to the formation of the LIGO and LIGO-Virgo scientific collaborations and for his role in addressing challenging technological and scientific aspects whose solution led to the first detection of gravitational waves".[10]

## Collaboration members

Membership of LIGO Scientific Collaboration as of November 2015 is detailed in the table below.[2]

Institution | Country | Members | Website

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Abilene Christian University |  United States | 2  |
Albert-Einstein-Institute, Hannover  |  Germany | 79  | Binary Merger Observations and Numerical Relativity, Laser Interferometry and Gravitational Wave Astronomy
Albert-Einstein-Institute, Potsdam-Golm  |  Germany | 21  | Astrophysical and Cosmological Relativity
American University  |  United States | 4  |
Andrews University  |  United States | 6  | Andrew University LIGO
Australian National University  |  Australia | 16  | Centre for Gravitational Physics
California Institute of Technology |  United States | 93  | LIGO Lab, Caltech LIGO Astrophysics
California State University, Fullerton |  United States | 15  | Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Center
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics |  Canada | 4  | Gravitational waves
Cardiff University |  United Kingdom | 28  | Gravity Exploration Institute
Carleton College |  United States | 8  |
Charles Sturt University  |  Australia | 1  |
Chennai Mathematical Institute |  India | 1  |
College of William & Mary  |  United States | 3  |
Columbia University |  United States | 8  |
Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University |  United States | 8  |
Eötvös Loránd University  |  Hungary | 9  | Eötvös Gravity Research Group
Georgia Institute of Technology  |  United States | 20  | Center for Relativistic Astrophysics
Goddard Space Flight Center |  United States | 5  |
Hanford Observatory |  United States | 38  | LIGO Hanford
Hanyang University  |  South Korea | 1  |
Hobart and William Smith Colleges |  United States | 4  |
IAP, Nizhny Novgorod  |  Russia | 8  |
ICTP-SAIFR  |  Brazil | 1  |
ICTS-TIFR  |  India | 9  |
IISER-KOL  |  India | 3  |
IISER-TVM  |  India | 5  |
Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar  |  India | 3  |
IndIGO  |  India | 59  | LIGO India
INPE |  Brazil | 6  |
IPR-Bhat |  India | 10  |
IUCAA |  India | 14  |
Kenyon College |  United States | 9  |
King's College London |  United Kingdom | 1  |
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information |  South Korea | 4  |
Leibniz University Hannover  |  Germany | 8  |
Livingston Observatory |  United States | 35  | LIGO Livingston
Louisiana State University |  United States | 16  | Experimental & Theoretical General Relativity
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |  United States | 35  | MIT LIGO
Monash University  |  Australia | 9  |
Montana State University |  United States | 3  | Gravitational Physics at MSU
Montclair State University |  United States | 3  |
Moscow State University  |  Russia | 11  |
National Institute of Mathematical Sciences  |  South Korea | 4  |
National Tsing Hua University  |  Taiwan | 3  |
Northwestern University |  United States | 16  | LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Penn State University  |  United States | 7  | Penn State LIGO group Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos
Pusan National University  |  South Korea | 3  |
Rochester Institute of Technology |  United States | 13  | Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation
RRCAT, Indore  |  India | 9  |
Rutherford Appleton Laboratory |  United Kingdom | 2  | STFC Advanced LIGO
Seoul National University  |  South Korea | 1  |
Sonoma State University |  United States | 5  |
Southern University |  United States | 1  |
Stanford University |  United States | 18  |
Swinburne University of Technology  |  Australia | 12  | ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery
Syracuse University |  United States | 31  | Syracuse University Gravitational Wave Group
Texas Tech University |  United States | 8  |
The Chinese University of Hong Kong  |  Hong Kong | 12  |
The University of Melbourne  |  Australia | 3  |
The University of Sheffield |  United Kingdom | 5  |
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research  |  India | 5  |
Trinity University |  United States | 2  |
Tsinghua University  |  China | 5  |
University of Alabama in Huntsville |  United States | 2  |
University of Adelaide  |  Australia | 4  | Optics and Photonics Group
University of Birmingham |  United Kingdom | 29  | Gravitational Wave Group
University of Brussels  |  Belgium | 4  | Precision Mechatronics Laboratory
University of Cambridge |  United Kingdom | 6  | Gravitational waves
University of Chicago |  United States | 4  |
University of Florida |  United States | 26  | LIGO at the University of Florida
University of Glasgow |  United Kingdom | 61  | Institute for Gravitational Research
University of Hamburg |  Germany | 6  |
University of Maryland  |  United States | 7  | Gravitation Experiment Group
University of Michigan |  United States | 10  | Michigan Gravitational Wave Group
University of Minnesota |  United States | 5  | LIGO at Minnesota
University of Mississippi |  United States | 10  | The LIGO Team at The University of Mississippi
University of Oregon |  United States | 10  |
University of Sannio |  Italy | 10  |
University of Santiago de Compostela |  Spain | 6  |
University of Southampton |  United Kingdom | 2  |
University of Strathclyde |  United Kingdom | 3  |
University of Szeged  |  Hungary | 3  |
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |  United States | 22  | Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy
University of Tokyo  |  Japan | 6  | Institute for Cosmic Ray Research, Gravitational Wave Group
University of the Balearic Islands  |  Spain | 9  | Relativity and Gravitation Group
University of Washington |  United States | 2  |
University of the West of Scotland |  United Kingdom | 4  |
University of Western Australia  |  Australia | 21  |
University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee |  United States | 27  | LIGO Scientific Collaboration Research Group
USC Information Sciences Institute |  United States | 3  |
Washington State University |  United States | 3  |
West Virginia University |  United States | 4  |
Whitman College |  United States | 3  |

## Notes

1. ↑ The 11 February 2016 announcement team were Kip Thorne, David Reitze, Gabriela González, and Rainer Weiss.

## References

1. ↑ "About the LSC". LIGO Scientific Collaboration. http://www.ligo.org/about.php.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "LSC/Virgo Census". myLIGO. https://my.ligo.org/census.php.
3. ↑ Committee on Setting Priorities for NSF-Sponsored Large Research Facility Projects, Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, Board on Physics and Astronomy, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences, National Research Council. (2004). Setting Priorities for Large Research Facility Projects Supported by the National Science Foundation. National Academies Press. pp. 129–136.
4. ↑ "Open call for partnership for the EM identification and follow-up of GW candidate events". 2015-12-06. https://dcc.ligo.org/public/0110/M1300550/011/LVC_MOUcallAndSummary.pdf.
5. ↑ "UW-Milwaukee astrophysicist elected spokesperson of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration | Newswise: News for Journalists". https://www.newswise.com/articles/uw-milwaukee-astrophysicist-elected-spokesperson-of-the-ligo-scientific-collaboration.
6. ↑ Twilley, Nicola. "Gravitational Waves Exist: The Inside Story of How Scientists Finally Found Them". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/gravitational-waves-exist-heres-how-scientists-finally-found-them.
7. ↑ Abbott, B.P. (2016). "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger". Phys. Rev. Lett. 116 (6): 061102. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102. PMID 26918975. Bibcode: 2016PhRvL.116f1102A.
8. ↑ Naeye, Robert (11 February 2016). "Gravitational Wave Detection Heralds New Era of Science". Sky and Telescope. http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/gravitational-wave-detection-heralds-new-era-of-science-0211201644/.
9. ↑ Castelvecchi, Davide; Witze, Alexandra (11 February 2016). "Einstein's gravitational waves found at last". Nature News. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.19361. http://www.nature.com/news/einstein-s-gravitational-waves-found-at-last-1.19361. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
10. ↑ "2016 Enrico Fermi Prize". Società Italiana di Fisica. http://www.primapagina.sif.it/article/466/il-premio-fermi-2016-alle-onde-gravitazionali.

## External links

* LIGO Magazine

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