Instrumentation
Instrumented Baffle integrated in the new payload at EGO clean room
November 4, 2020
Gravitational Waves GroupThe integration tests of the new instrumented baffle in new IMC payload at the EGO clean room were successful. Also the optical test for TIS in the baffle surface was done succesfully.
Now the Baffle is being sent for optical coating , and the electronics are sent to industry for final assembly.
Instrumentation
Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase
March 12, 2024
The IFAE contributions to the ETpathfinder test facility is described in this article “Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase ”.
Prize
Alba Romero-Rodriguez winner of the 2023 Virgo Awards
November 15, 2023
Alba Romero-Rodriguez (former PhD Student at IFAE and now at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) is one of the wiiners of the third edition of the Virgo Awards
New Publication
New GW group publication
May 8, 2023
Searches for mass-asymmetric compact binary coalescence events using neural networks in the LIGO/Virgo third observation period by M. Andrés-Carcasona, A. Menéndez-Vázquez, M. Martínez, and Ll. M. Mir has been published by Phys.Rev.D