Gravitational Waves and Their Detection: Research in LIGO

一个由五名物理学家组成的小组正致力于与激光干涉仪引力波天文台（LIGO）相关的长期研究。根据该合同，他们将从事以下活动：1)开发LIGO干涉仪的输入/输出光学器件，不包括LIGO建设项目中定义的光学器件；2)开发双循环和共振边带提取；3)计算和数据管理；4)LIGO光学系统的模拟。该项目由物理司和MPS多学科活动办公室联合支持。

A group of five physicists is making a major long-term commitment to research related to the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Under this award they will pursue the following activities: 1) the development of input/output optics for the LIGO interferometers, exclusive of that defined in the LIGO construction project, 2) development of dual recycling and resonant side-band extraction, 3) computing and data management, and 4) simulation of the LIGO optical system. This project is jointly supported by the Division of Physics and the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities.