LIGO-Start

Advanced LIGO begins operations this week (September 18th), after 7 long years of enhancement.
In O1 (“observing run 1”) instruments will finally begin to confront the most optimistic predictions for how often compact binaries coalesce.

For more information, see the links below, and prior posts

• Caltech press release and RIT press release

• LIGO web site

• Event rates for aLIGO : Rodriguez et al 2015; Dominik et al 2015, and the fiducial LIGO event rate review article