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We announced the observation of gravitational waves from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) on 11-February-2016 [1], one hundred years after Einstein first proposed the existence of gravitational waves [2, 3]. Whether gravitational waves existed or not was controversial among theorists for the first 50 years, and then the actual observation came after another fifty years to develop a detector sensitive enough to observe the tiny distortions in spacetime from gravitational waves. The instrument was developed through the LIGO Laboratory, a Caltech/MIT collaboration, and the scientific exploitation through the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC), having more than a thousand scientists, from around the world, who co-author the gravitational wave observational papers. In addition, many others have made and are making important contributions to our research.
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Barish, B.C. (2019). Gravitational Waves: Detectors to Detections. In: Li, J., Meng, X., Zhang, Y., Cui, W., Du, Z. (eds) Big Scientific Data Management. BigSDM 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11473. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28061-1_1
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