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LIGO Websites

LIGO Home Page. This is the official website of the LIGO project.

NCSA Summary. A brief summary of the LIGO project and Gravitational-Wave detection.

Jim Brau's Seminar (PDF). The slides from a seminar on Gravitational Waves and detectors.

LIGO Summary. Also a brief summary very similar to the first one in this list.

Barry Barish's Seminar. The first half is a general discussion of Supernovas, and the second part discusses Gravitation Wave sources and detection with LIGO.

Daniel Sigg's Paper (PDF). A detailed technical paper discussing Gravitational Waves, laser-interferometer detectors, sensitivities, and GW projects.

Kip Thorne's Paper. A summary is given of the current status and plans for gravitational wave searches at all plausible wavelengths. The expected scientific payoff is described.

LIGO Science. A brief discussion of some of the sensitivity issues of LIGO.

LIGO Optics. A discussion of the LIGO optics system by David Reitze, LIGO Input Optics Project Manager.

GW Sources. A discussion of the various astrophysical Gravitation-Wave sources and the sensitivities required to see them.