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The Extreme Instruments of Astrophysics - LIGO
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- 1 Introduction
- 2 Welcome
- 3 Presentation
- 4 Stars
- 5 White Dwarfs
- 6 Neutron Stars
- 7 Black Holes
- 8 General Relativity
- 9 Spacetime
- 10 Two Black Holes
- 11 Einsteins Equations
- 12 Ray Weiss
- 13 Interferometry 101
- 14 Layout
- 15 How Extreme is LIGO
- 16 Stellar Graveyard
- 17 The Binary Neutron Star
- 18 Gravitational Waves vs Telescopes
- 19 LIGO Measurements
- 20 LIGO Hacking
- 21 RealTime Computing
- 22 The Trick
- 23 Simple Software
- 24 Electronics
- 25 Fast Shutter
- 26 Vibration
- 27 Damping
- 28 CryoBaffle dampers
- 29 Acoustic Mode dampers
- 30 Squeeze Light
- 31 Quantum Noise
- 32 Squeezed Vacuum
- 33 Questions
- 34 Runaway amplification
- 35 Waveform
- 36 Realtime
- 37 Geology
- 38 Electronics shielding
- 39 Quantum squeezing
- 40 Laser
