The current aim of the facility is to develop advanced techniques for improving the sensitivity of interferometric gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO and VIRGO.
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LIGO-Australia was a proposed plan (AIGO Stage II) to install an Advanced LIGO interferometer at AIGO, forming a triangle of three Advanced LIGO detectors.
He is principal investigator in charge of data analysis for the GEO600 collaboration (which, in turn, is part of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the largest concerted effort to directly detect gravitational waves).
The Crab Pulsar was the first pulsar for which the spin-down limit was broken using several months of data of the LIGO observatory.
LIGO's Hanford Observatory, an interferometer searching for gravitational waves
The project intend to construct a dedicated optical follow-up instrument for Advanced LIGO (aLIGO)and Advanced Virgo (AdVirgo) in order to surveying the sky for even very dim afterglows of gravitational waves events.
An important application of particular note is the detection of gravitational radiation with projects such as LIGO.
These simulations have provided a major impetus for the development of gravitational wave detectors such as LIGO.
The three instruments (LIGO's instruments are located near Livingston, Louisiana and on the Hanford Site, Washington in the U.S.) will collect data for more than a year, with breaks for tuning and updates.
Current interferometric gravitational wave detectors include GEO600 near Sarstedt, Germany, and LIGO, with detector facilities in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, in the United States.
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) is a collaboration by numerous physics institutes and research groups dedicated to the search for gravitational waves using the detectors LIGO and GEO 600.