IPR Gandhinagar to build LIGO India system for detecting gravitational waves

Q.  Which institute is going to build the world’s most advanced system, LIGO India to detect gravitation waves?
- Published on 19 Feb 16

a. IISC Bengaluru
b. IPR Gandhinagar
c. ISRO, Bengaluru
d. NISER, Bhubaneswar

ANSWER: IPR Gandhinagar
 
Institute for Plasma Research at Gandhinagar is going to build the most advanced LIGO-India or Laser Interferometer Gravitational Observatory for detecting gravitational waves. This will be the third observatory of its kind in the globe. LIGO India aims to enhance identification of source of gravitational waves by as much as 5 to 10 times working in tandem with two US based detectors. The LIGO vacuum systems are among the largest in the world with a pump volume of 10 mega-litres sucked out to an ultra-high vacuum. The vacuum system -including beam tubes, the tanks and all the essential vacuum pumps -will be manufactured on site by the IPR.

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