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The 25 pages that link to LIGO, each with the reason it gives.

• Gravitational waveBroader topic: Its interferometers measure the tiny differential changes in arm length caused by passing waves.

• Gravitational-wave astronomyBroader topic: Its detectors made the first direct observation of gravitational waves.

• InterferometryBroader topic: Its detections extended interferometry from laboratory precision to astronomy.

• Michelson interferometerBroader topic: Its long Michelson-based arms register minute differential changes caused by passing waves.

• Gravitational wave detectorsBroader topic: Its long, highly isolated arms show how interferometric detection is implemented.

• Experimental physicsBroader topic: LIGO's interferometers made gravitational-wave signals accessible to direct observation.

• Quantum metrologyBroader topic: LIGO demonstrated squeezed-light enhancement in precision interferometric measurement.

• Rainer WeissBroader topic: Weiss’s instrument concept became the foundation of LIGO’s detectors.

• Barry BarishBroader topic: Barish directed the project that built and operated these detectors.

• First observation of gravitational wavesBroader topic: Its two detectors recorded the signal that established the observation.

• Gravitational-wave observatoryBroader topic: LIGO made the first direct detection of gravitational waves in 2015.