She has carried out research to design advanced optical configurations of laser interferometer gravitational-wave detectors that use the subtleties of quantum mechanics to gain even more sensitivity.
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In 1996, Kip Thorne approached Bethe and Brown about LIGO, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, designed to detect the gravitational waves from merging neutron stars and black holes.
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A far more ambitious project than LIGO, the space-based Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA, is planned by the European Space Agency for launching a decade from now.
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From September 2011, both VIRGO and the LIGO detectors were shut down for upgrades, leaving GEO600 as the only operating large scale laser interferometer searching for gravitational waves.
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Brau led the Oregon group into the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ( LIGO ) Scientific Collaboration in 1997; he was a co-author of the 2016 gravitational wave discovery paper.
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New space-based detectors, like NASA's planned Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, should be able to detect gravity waves from these events that could help determine how black holes are formed.
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UTM's tie-up with the Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences of Japan has resulted in the contribution of a RM16 million Laser interferometer to be set up at UTM's Einstein laboratory.
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A spin-off of this research, with applications to the aviation industry, resulted from the discovery that " N "-slit laser interferometers are very efficient and effective detectors of clear air turbulence.
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Also, the Hubble space telescope is a joint project of NASA and ESA . Future ESA-NASA joint projects include the James Webb Space Telescope and the proposed Laser Interferometer Space Antenna.
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In addition to managing JPL, Caltech also operates the Palomar Observatory in Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory at Livingston, Louisiana and Richland, Washington, and Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory in Corona del Mar, California.
