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That's the idea! I seem to remember that there are plans to build another detector in India. I'm not sure what its status is. http://gw-indigo.org/tiki-index
by antognini 10y ago
That's the idea! I seem to remember that there are plans to build another detector in India. I'm not sure what its status is.
http://gw-indigo.org/tiki-index.php?page=LIGO-India http://gw-indigo.org/tiki-index.php?page=LIGO-India
- ahnitz 10y agoFunding for its construction was approved by India. We are hoping that it might coming online in ~ 5 years. It takes a long time to build everything from the ground up.
- ziotom78 10y agoNote that the VIRGO detector, located near Pisa (Italy), has already taken a set of measurements a few years ago, and it would have been sensitive enough to detect waves like the one from last September. Unfortunately, Virgo was down for upgrades when GW150914 came. I recall that they plan to restart Virgo by early 2017, so it should be operational well before Ligo India. (And I like to underline that Ligo and Virgo joined together in the Ligo/Virgo collaboration and thus work together: as a matter of fact, the first guy who saw GW150914 in the raw data was from Virgo, and the papers presenting the detection were signed by people in both collaborations.)