Title: LIGO, VIRGO, and KAGRA as the International Gravitational Wave Network
Abstract: The first detection of gravitational waves was made by the two LIGO detectors in the United States one hundred years after general relativity was first described by Einstein. Two years later, Virgo joined LIGO in the second advanced gravitational-wave detector observing run. As of May 2021, 50 gravitational-wave events from mergers of binary black-holes or neutron stars have been published by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. KAGRA in Japan is part of this international gravitational wave network since April 2020, and joint observations are anticipated in the next observing run. We briefly introduce the LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA detectors and the remarkable results of gravitational-wave observations up to now. The other articles in this handbook provide a comprehensive overview of the subject at this time.
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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