'Ligo sensitivity' presentation slideshows

LIGO and the Quest for Gravitational Waves Barry C. Barish Caltech UT Austin 24-Sept-03

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Crab Pulsar

Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves Barry C. Barish Caltech Cornell University 3-April-06. Crab Pulsar. General Relativity the essential idea. G mn = 8 pT mn. Gravity is not a force, but a property of space & time Spacetime = 3 spatial dimensions + time

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Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves Barry C. Barish Caltech Georgia Tech 26-April-06

Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves Barry C. Barish Caltech Georgia Tech 26-April-06. Crab Pulsar. General Relativity the essential idea. G mn = 8 pT mn. Gravity is not a force, but a property of space & time Spacetime = 3 spatial dimensions + time

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Crab Pulsar

Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves Barry C. Barish Caltech Cornell University 3-April-06. Crab Pulsar. General Relativity the essential idea. G mn = 8 pT mn. Gravity is not a force, but a property of space & time Spacetime = 3 spatial dimensions + time

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Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves Barry C. Barish Caltech Georgia Tech 26-April-06

Probing the Universe for Gravitational Waves Barry C. Barish Caltech Georgia Tech 26-April-06. Crab Pulsar. General Relativity the essential idea. G mn = 8 pT mn. Gravity is not a force, but a property of space & time Spacetime = 3 spatial dimensions + time

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"Colliding Black Holes" Credit: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

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Status and Prospects for LIGO Barry C. Barish Caltech 17-March-06

Status and Prospects for LIGO Barry C. Barish Caltech 17-March-06. Crab Pulsar. St Thomas, Virgin Islands. 4 km. LIGO. Livingston, Louisiana. 4 km. 2 km. LIGO. Hanford Washington. laser. Interferometer optical layout. vacuum. suspended, seismically isolated test masses. mode

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Status and Prospects for LIGO Barry C. Barish Caltech 17-March-06

Status and Prospects for LIGO Barry C. Barish Caltech 17-March-06. Crab Pulsar. St Thomas, Virgin Islands. 4 km. LIGO. Livingston, Louisiana. 4 km. 2 km. LIGO. Hanford Washington. laser. Interferometer optical layout. vacuum. suspended, seismically isolated test masses. mode

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Klopsteg Memorial Lecture Barry Barish Caltech 125th AAPT National Meeting Boise, Idaho 6-Aug-02

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Annus Mirabilis

Einstein's Legacy: General Relativity, our Best Description of the Universe Barry C. Barish Caltech LLNL Science Day 23-May-05. Annus Mirabilis. In 1905, Albert Einstein wrote five revolutionary scientific papers.

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"Colliding Black Holes" Credit: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

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"Colliding Black Holes" Credit: National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)

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LIGO-xxx

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LIGO-xxx

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WMAP 2003

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LIGO-xxx

Einstein's Legacy: General Relativity, our Best Description of the Universe Barry C. Barish Caltech AAAS 20-Feb-05. Crab Pulsar. LIGO-xxx. General Relativity the essential idea. G mn = 8 pT mn. Gravity is not a force, but a property of space & time Spacetime = 3 spatial dimensions + time

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LIGO-xxx

Einstein's Legacy: General Relativity, our Best Description of the Universe Barry C. Barish Caltech AAAS 20-Feb-05. Crab Pulsar. LIGO-xxx. General Relativity the essential idea. G mn = 8 pT mn. Gravity is not a force, but a property of space & time Spacetime = 3 spatial dimensions + time

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LIGO The Bumpy Road from Construction to Science

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LIGO Present and Future

LIGO Present and Future. Barry Barish Directory of the LIGO Laboratory. LIGO I Schedule and Plan. 1996 Construction Underway (mostly civil) 1997 Facility Construction (vacuum system) 1998 Interferometer Construction (complete facilities)

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Upper Limits on the Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves from LIGO

Upper Limits on the Stochastic Background of Gravitational Waves from LIGO. Vuk Mandic Einstein2005 Conference Paris, July 20 2005. Outline. Sources and Observations Searching for Gravitational Waves with Interferometers Searching for Stochastic Background Results Outlook and Conclusions.

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