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People at Work





Adjusting optic suspensions in situ
Assembling the HEPI active seismic isolation system




Assembling a test mass suspension
Moving a test mass suspension
LIGO scientists work on aligning a Faraday isolator (Credit:  D. Reitze, University of Florida)




Aligning the laser beam into the vacuum chamber (Credit: D. Reitze, University of Florida)

'Surfing' into the vacuum chamber to access a hard-to-reach optical component

Overlooking the input optics




LIGO scientists take a break

LIGO scientist holding an infrared viewer LIGO scientist aligning a delicate small optics suspension tower




LIGO scientist assembling a laser beam polarizer (Credit:  D. Reitze, University of Florida)

Installation of e-LIGO input optics at Hanford (Credit:  Volker Quetschke, University of Florida)

LIGO Hanford control room





Hard at work in the LLO control room (Credit:  S. Finn)



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