Stan Whitcomb
Abstract:
The 14 September 2015 observation of gravitational waves from a coalescing binary black hole marked the dawn of gravitational wave astrophysics. This transformational discovery as made possible by Advanced LIGO, a new generation of laser-interferometer gravitational wave detectors with much greater sensitivity than previous detectors. LIGO has joined with Virgo to form a growing global network of detectors which will work together to extract the maximum science from their data. The Government of India has recently approved a collaborative project to bring an Advanced LIGO detector to India as an important next step in expanding this network.