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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)

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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) – India is a planned advanced gravitational-wave observatory to be located in India as part of the worldwide network, whose concept proposal is now under active consideration in India and the USA. LIGO-India is envisaged as a collaborative project between a consortium of Indian research institutions and the LIGO Laboratory in the USA, along with its international partners.

LIGO-India received the Indian Government’s in-principle approval in February 2016. Since then the project reached several milestones toward selecting and acquiring a site and building the observatory.

A Gravitational Wave detector project on Indian soil
The LIGO-India project will be built by the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, with a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, along with several national and international research and academic institutions.

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