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LIGO Design Sensitivity

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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2005

Barry Clark BarishNovember 2005

Hanford and Livingston · Science / Physics

Initial LIGO reaches its planned design sensitivity and begins the long S5 science run, producing the observatory's most sensitive pre-Advanced-LIGO gravitational-wave data set.

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Barry Clark Barish

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