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On 20 February, dignitaries will descend on Virgo, Europe's premier gravitational wave detector near Pisa, Italy, for a dedication ceremony to celebrate a 5 - year, $ 24 million upgrade.
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A gravitational wave will warp space and briefly change the relative distance between the mirrors and photo detector situated near the LIGO control room.
Later this year, European partners of the LIGO collaboration plan to restart their revamped gravity wave observatory, Advanced Virgo, near Pisa, Italy, providing a crucial third ultrasensitive detector for pinpointing gravity wave sources.
It's the first gravitational wave sighting to be made with three detectors: LIGO's two detectors (in Livingston, La., and Hanford, Wash.) and Virgo's detector near Pisa, Italy.
At 12:41 universal time on 17 August, physicists with three massive instruments — the twin 8 - kilometer - long detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, and the 6 - kilometer Virgo detector near Pisa, Italy — spotted waves unlike any seen before.
The project was set up in February 2005 as way of searching for gravitational waves (also emitted by pulsars) in data collected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector instruments located in Livingston, La., and on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash..
Gravitational waves emanating from the spiraling neutron stars triggered LIGO detectors in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, and the French - Italian Virgo detector near Pisa, Italy.
LIGO should also provide new, rigorous tests of Einstein's general theory of relativity, and — working with other gravitational wave detectors due to come online in the near future — pinpoint precisely where in the sky the waves are coming from.
The two detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO), in Hanford (WA) and Livingston (LA), and the Virgo detector, near Pisa, Italy, have detected gravitational waves from colliding neutron stars for the first time.
The spectacular event took place around 1.8 billion light years from Earth, so this is how far the gravitational waves would have had to travel before being detected first by the Advanced LIGO detector in Louisiana (USA), followed by a second detection by the second LIGO detector in Washington State (USA), and then finally the third detection was picked up by the Advanced Virgo detector near Pisa (Italy).
The search for gravitational waves will soon gain an additional set of ears, in the form of Virgo, a similar detector located near Pisa, Italy, that is scheduled to come online this summer and will pair with LIGO.