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.
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
IFAE organization
New positions in the IFAE Organization
January 16, 2023
Mario Martinez, ICREA professor at IFAE and head of the Gravitational Waves Group, is the new Director of the Experimental Division and takes on the role of IFAE Deputy Director. Martine Bosman, retiring Director of the Experimental Division, assumes the status of IFAE Emeritus.