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Summaries of LSC Scientific Publications

We now feature, for each new research article, a summary written for the general public. Simply click on any of the titles for an online version, or on the '[flyer]' links for a downloadable file in PDF format. Translations into several languages are also available for some of these summaries. Where not noted separately, translations can be accessed through the two-letter language acronyms (e.g. 'es' for Spanish) or from the top of the English online versions.

Most recent summaries
Apr 01, 2019 All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run
Mar 12, 2019 Tests of General Relativity with gravitational waves from black hole mergers [flyer]
Mar 08, 2019 Searching for a Gravitational Wave Background During Advanced LIGO's Second Observing Run [flyer]
Mar 08, 2019 Searching for Gravitational Waves from Magnetars [flyer]

Detection papers
O1&O2 catalog
(Dec 03, 2018)		 Catalog paper summarizing previous and new detections:

GWTC-1: A New Catalog of Gravitational-Wave Detections [flyer]

Also in French | German | Italian | Spanish .

Companion papers: (also available in some other languages):
GW170608
(Nov 15, 2017)		 Detection paper:

GW170608: LIGO's Lightest Black Hole Binary? [flyer]

Also in French | German | Italian.

GW170817
(Oct 16, 2017)		 Detection paper:

GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral [flyer]

Also in Chinese | French | German | Italian | Russian | Spanish.

Companion papers (also available in some other languages):
GW170814
(Sep 27, 2017)		 Detection paper:

GW170814: A three-detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence [flyer]

Also in French | German | Italian | Polish | Spanish.

GW170104
(Jun 1, 2017)		 Detection paper:

GW170104: Observation of a 50 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2 [flyer]

Also in Chinese | French | German | Italian | Polish | Spanish.

GW151226
(Jun 15, 2016)		 Detection paper:

GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22 Solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence [flyer]

Also in French | German | Italian | Spanish

GW150914
(Feb 11, 2016)		 Detection paper:

Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger [flyer]

Also in Chinese | French | German | Italian | Japanese | Spanish.

Companion papers (also available in some other languages):

Other publications

2018
Nov 09, 2018 All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run [flyer]
Oct 30, 2018 Another long hard look for the remnant of GW170817 [flyer]
Oct 30, 2018 A search for sub-solar mass black holes [flyer]
Oct 30, 2018 Searching for Gravitational Waves From Cosmic Strings [flyer]
Jun 25, 2018 GW170817: How Big are Neutron Stars? [flyer]
Jun 4, 2018 Looking for "Forbidden" Polarizations in the Gravitational-wave Background with Advanced LIGO [flyer]
Jun 4, 2018 First Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves beyond General Relativity [flyer]
Jun 4, 2018 Hunting for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars within a Narrow Range of Candidate Frequencies [flyer]
Jun 4, 2018 All-sky Search for High-frequency Continuous Gravitational Waves in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run [flyer]
Mar 16, 2018 A Bright Today and Brighter Tomorrow: Prospects for Gravitational-wave Astronomy With Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA [flyer]
Mar 5, 2018 Hunting Low-Frequency Continuous Gravitational Waves With the Einstein@Home Distributed Computing System [flyer]
Mar 5, 2018 Searching the Entire Sky for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Rapidly Rotating Neutron Stars in Advanced LIGO Data [flyer]
Mar 5, 2018 Searching for Gravitational Waves from a Nearby Globular Cluster [flyer]
Mar 5, 2018 All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves With the Einstein@Home Distributed Computing System [flyer]

2017
Jun 18, 2017 A Sensitive Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 with Advanced LIGO [flyer]
Jun 1, 2017 Search for Mergers of Intermediate-mass Black Holes [flyer]
May 22, 2017 Search for Core-collapse Supernovae in Initial LIGO and Virgo Data [flyer]
May 1, 2017 Searching for Continuous Gravitational-wave Signals: Casting a Wide and Fine Net [flyer]
Apr 12, 2017 Searching for a Wandering Continuous Wave Signal from Scorpius X-1 [flyer]
Feb 3, 2017 Searching for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Pulsars [flyer] [es]

2016
Dec 13, 2016 Mapping the Gravitational Wave Sky [flyer]
Dec 13, 2016 Listening for the Background of Gravitational Waves with Advanced LIGO [flyer]
Nov 29, 2016 What's Behind the Mysterious Gamma-ray Bursts? LIGO's Search for Clues to Their Origins [flyer]
Jun 21, 2016 Searching for Gravitational Wave Bursts in Coincidence with Short Duration Radio Bursts [flyer]
Apr 20, 2016 The Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO Detectors at the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy [flyer] [es]

2015
Dec 23, 2015 Planning for a Bright Tomorrow: Prospects for Gravitational-wave Astronomy with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo [flyer] [es]
Nov 24, 2015 Stuck in the Middle: An All-Sky Search for Gravitational Waves of Intermediate Duration [flyer]
Oct 14, 2015 First Search for Low Frequency Continuous Gravitational Waves Emitted by Unseen Neutron Stars [flyer]
Oct 14, 2015 Scouting Our Galactic Neighborhood [flyer]

2014
Dec 22, 2014 Searching for the Youngest Neutron Stars in the Galaxy [flyer]
Dec 8, 2014 Combing Initial LIGO Data for the Potentially Strong Continuous Wave Emitter Scorpius X-1 [flyer]
Oct 31, 2014 An Extended Search for Gravitational Waves from the Crab and Vela Pulsars [flyer]
Oct 31, 2014 Search for a Gravitational-wave Background Using Co-located LIGO Detectors [flyer]
Oct 30, 2014 Cleaning Up LIGO Data [flyer]
Jul 7, 2014 Capturing Invisible Cosmic Explosions [flyer] [es]
Jun 25, 2014 Searching for a Background Buzz of Gravitational Waves [flyer]
Jun 4, 2014 Searching for the Continuous Sounds of Unknown Neutron Stars in Binary Systems [flyer]
May 15, 2014 Leveraging the GEO600 Detector to Search for Gravitational Waves from Gamma-ray Bursts [flyer] [es]
Apr 15, 2014 Searching for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-ray Bursts Detected by the InterPlanetary Network [flyer] [es]
Apr 09, 2014 Observing the Invisible Collisions of Intermediate Mass Black Holes [flyer] [es]
Mar 26, 2014 Ringing of the Cosmic Bells: A Search for Black Hole Vibrations [flyer] [es]
Feb 24, 2014 All-sky Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves in the Virgo Data [flyer] [es]
Jan 16, 2014 Can we Hear Black Holes Collide? Testing Our Search Methods using Numerically Generated Gravitational-wave Signals [flyer] [es]

2013
Nov 14, 2013 Do Cosmic Strings Exist? [flyer] [es]
Nov 14, 2013 Searching for Continuous Gravitational Wave Signals with the Hough Transform [flyer] [es]
Oct 16, 2013 Scanning the Skies for Cosmic Explosions: First Search for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational Waves [flyer] [es]
Oct 04, 2013 A Search for Long-lived Gravitational Waves Associated with Long Gamma-ray Bursts [flyer] [es]
Sep 26, 2013 How High Are Pulsar "Mountains"? [flyer] [es]
Sep 26, 2013 Listening for the Hum of Neutron Stars in the Center of Our Galaxy [flyer] [es]
Aug 02, 2013 The Quantum Enhanced LIGO Detector Sets New Sensitivity Record [flyer] [es]
Apr 05, 2013 What Gravitational Waves Can Tell Us About Colliding Stars and Black Holes [flyer] [es]

2012
Oct 01, 2012 Dance of the Dead Stars: A Search for Massive Binary Black Hole Coalescences [flyer]
Aug 03, 2012 Hunting Continuous Gravitational Waves with the Einstein@Home Distributed Computing System [flyer]
May 15, 2012 New Cosmic Messengers: First Joint Search for Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos [flyer]
May 11, 2012 A Search for Gravitational Waves from Gamma-Ray Bursts [flyer]
May 08, 2012 X-Rays and Gravitational Waves: LIGO and Virgo Point the Way for the Swift Satellite [flyer]
Apr 02, 2012 Virgo Data Characterization and Impact on Gravitational Wave Searches [flyer]
Mar 14, 2012 Sensitivity of LIGO and Virgo Gravitational Wave Detectors to Compact Binary Inspirals [flyer]
Feb 15, 2012 Listening for Gravitational Waves with "Ears Wide Open" [flyer]
Feb 06, 2012 Optical, X-ray, and Radio Telescopes Seek Explosive Sources of Gravitational Waves [flyer]
Jan 31, 2012 Search for Gravitational Waves from Intermediate Mass Binary Black Holes [flyer]
Jan 23, 2012 Implications for the Origin of GRB 051103 from LIGO Observations [flyer]
Jan 11, 2012 First Low-Latency LIGO+Virgo Search for Binary Inspirals and their Electromagnetic Counterparts [flyer]
Jan 03, 2012 Directional Limits on Persistent Gravitational Waves Using LIGO S5 Science Data [flyer]

2011
Dec 21, 2011 Upper Limits on a Stochastic GW Background Using LIGO and Virgo Interferometers at 600-1000 Hz [flyer]
Dec 01, 2011 A Search for Gravitational Waves from Inspiraling Neutron Stars and Black Holes [flyer]
Sep 11, 2011 A Gravitational Wave Observatory Operating Beyond the Quantum Shot-noise Limit [flyer]

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)

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