Vue aérienne de l’interféromètre Virgo |
Localisation de Virgo |
From May 2007 to October 2011, Virgo has done four scientific data taking, among which three were done in coincidence with the american LIGO experiment. The common LIGO-Virgo data analysis results have not shown any gravitational wave detection.
A more sentitive detector, Advanced Virgo, is currently built and should do its first scientific run during the year 2017, with a sensitivity sufficient to allow the international network of detectors Advanced Virgo and Advanced LIGO to observe several gravitational wave astrophysical sources per year and to continue the pioneering work of gravitational wave astronomy.
For more information, you can visit the web page of the Virgo experiment, ask to come on the experiment’s site or write to us.