Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations

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Alternative namesLIGO-India Edit this at Wikidata
Location(s)India Edit this at Wikidata
Coordinates19°36′45″N 77°01′57″E / 19.6125°N 77.0325°E / 19.6125; 77.0325 Edit this at Wikidata
Telescope stylegravitational-wave observatory Edit this on Wikidata
Websitewww.gw-indigo.org Edit this at Wikidata
Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations is located in India
Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations
Location of Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations
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Finalized construction site for LIGO India

INDIGO or IndIGO (Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations) is a consortium of Indian gravitational wave physicists.[1] It is an initiative to set up advanced experimental facilities for a multi-institutional observatory project in gravitational-wave astronomy to be located near Aundha Nagnath, Hingoli District, Maharashtra, India.[2] Predicted date of commission is in 2030.[3]

Since 2009, the IndIGO Consortium has been planning a roadmap for gravitational-wave astronomy and a phased strategy towards Indian participation in realizing a gravitational wave observatory in the Asia-Pacific region. IndIGO is the Indian partner (along with the LIGO Laboratory in the US) in planning the LIGO-India project,[4] a planned advanced gravitational-wave detector to be located in India, whose concept proposal is now under active consideration by the science funding agencies in India and US.[5] The LIGO Laboratory, in collaboration with the U.S. National Science Foundation and Advanced LIGO partners from the U.K., Germany and Australia, has offered to provide all of the designs and hardware for one of the three planned Advanced LIGO detectors to be installed, commissioned, and operated by an Indian team of scientists in a facility to be built in India. A site near Aundha Nagnath in the Hingoli District, Maharashtra has been selected.[6][2] In April 2023, the Cabinet of India approved the project to build the advanced gravitational-wave detector in Maharashtra at an estimated cost of Rs 2,600 crore. The facility's construction is expected to be completed by 2030.[7]

  1. ^ "IndIGO | Welcome". Gw-indigo.org. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  2. ^ a b Souradeep, Tarun (18 January 2019). "LIGO-India: Origins & site search" (PDF). p. 27. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  3. ^ Mann, Adam (4 March 2020). "The golden age of neutron-star physics has arrived". Nature. 579 (7797): 20–22. Bibcode:2020Natur.579...20M. doi:10.1038/d41586-020-00590-8. PMID 32132697.
  4. ^ "LIGO-India". Indigo. 2015. Retrieved 30 April 2016.
  5. ^ "IndIGO | LIGO-India". Gw-indigo.org. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
  6. ^ "First LIGO Lab Outside US To Come Up In Maharashtra's Hingoli". NDTV. 8 September 2016.
  7. ^ Bureau, The Hindu (7 April 2023). "Cabinet approves LIGO-India, gravitational-wave detector to be built in Maha". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 7 April 2023. {{cite news}}: |last= has generic name (help)