Summaries of LSC Scientific Publications

We now feature, for each new research article, a summary written for the general public. Summaries are listed in reverse chronological order.

Apr 05, 2013 What Gravitational Waves Can Tell Us About Colliding Stars and Black Holes
Oct 01, 2012 Dance of the Dead Stars: A Search for Massive Binary Black Hole Coalescences
Aug 03, 2012 Hunting Continuous Gravitational Waves with the Einstein@Home Distributed Computing System
May 15, 2012 New Cosmic Messengers: First Joint Search for Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos
May 11, 2012 A Search for Gravitational Waves from Gamma-Ray Bursts
May 08, 2012 X-Rays and Gravitational Waves: LIGO and Virgo Point the Way for the Swift Satellite
Apr 02, 2012 Virgo Data Characterization and Impact on Gravitational Wave Searches
Mar 14, 2012 Sensitivity of LIGO and Virgo Gravitational Wave Detectors to Compact Binary Inspirals
Feb 15, 2012 Listening for gravitational-waves with "ears wide open"
Feb 06, 2012 Optical, X-ray, and Radio Telescopes Seek Explosive Sources of Gravitational Waves
Jan 31, 2012 Search for Gravitational Waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes
Jan 23, 2012 Implications for the origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO observations
Jan 11, 2012 First Low-Latency LIGO+Virgo Search for Binary Inspirals and their Electromagnetic Counterparts
Jan 03, 2012 Directional limits on persistent gravitational waves using LIGO S5 science data
Dec 21, 2011 Upper limits on a stochastic GW background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz
Dec 01, 2011 A search for gravitational waves from inspiraling neutron stars and black holes
Sep 11, 2011 A gravitational wave observatory operating beyond the quantum shot-noise limit

Looking down a detector arm


Visitors at LIGO Hanford Observatory gaze down the site's X arm. Half of the 4-kilometer length of the arm is visible in the photo. (Credit: LIGO Laboratory)