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, has then been built and made its first scientific run during August 2017, with a sensitivity sufficient to allow the international network of detectors Advanced Virgo and Advanced LIGO to observe several gravitational wave astrophysical sources, especially the famous neutron stars coalescence GW170817.
From April 1st 2019 up to March 27th 2020, this pioneering work of gravitational wave astronomy has continued with the O3 scientific run, which has provided more than 50 detections of black hole or neutron star coalescences.
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