LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Gravitational-Wave Detectors
Useful links
Current LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA observations
- Gravitational Wave Candidate Event Database (GraceDB)
Database of all gravitational-wave events, including relevant public data- List of all GW alerts
This includes low significance alerts, joint EM alerts, and retractions. - List of all GW alerts, color-coded by event type
Click on an individual event to bring up more information (including the sky map). - List of all GW public alerts
- List of all GW alerts, color-coded by event type
Click on an individual event to bring up more information (including the sky map).
- List of all GW alerts
- GW detector network snapshot
What detectors are on right now? - GW observatory status
Home page for the state of the LIGO/Virgo network. - GW current status
Current noise curves, ranges, and operating times of the detectors. - GW detector network summary
How sensitive were the detectors on a given day? How far could the detectors have seen a binary neutron star merger on Aug. 17, 2017? What fraction of the time are the detectors operating? - GCN circulars archive
A list of all GCNs, with recent ones listed first. GCNs (Gamma-ray Coordinates Network) are a way that astronomers rapidly inform each other about interesting observations. - LIGO data grid
LIGO distributed computing centers.
General LIGO/Gravitational-wave resources
- LIGO detection papers
A list of some recent LIGO collaboration papers - Public alerts user’s guide
Everything you want to know about the LIGO/Virgo alerts - GW Open Science Center (GWOSC)
Data, tutorials, software tools. The place to start for interacting with LIGO/Virgo data. - LIGO/Virgo data analysis tutorials
- LIGO/Virgo historical data
Gravitational-wave distance calculator - Science summaries
Accessible descriptions of some of the key LIGO/Virgo publications. - Sounds of Spacetime
Turning gravitational-wave detections into sounds. - Audio files of GW events
- Humans of LIGO
Short profiles of some of the people involved - GW alert app
A handy iPhone app to receive and follow GCN alerts.