Spacepod
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Carrie Nugent
67: The most ambitious measurement ever made, with Dr. Reitze (Part 2)
22 minutes Posted Oct 16, 2016 at 9:00 am.
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Dr. Dave Reitze, the  Executive Director of LIGO, talks about how each source of noise at LIGO must be meticulously accounted for— from wolves howling, to tidal flexing of the Earth’s surface, to the motion of the atoms in the observatory’s mirrors.