KAGRA Wiki

Information for researchers. For general information, please go to https://gwcenter.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Present Status of KAGRA

• Solo Observation Run (Feb 25, 2020 -- March 10, 2020) see O3b page.

• new record 442 kpc, March 3.

• new record 500 kpc, March 5.

• new record 594 kpc, locked 10h 28m, March 9.

• new record 655 kpc, March 18.

• new record 883 kpc, March 25.

• new record 959 kpc, March 26.

• Contents in this page	[1] Links	[2] KSC contents	[3] Site Access	[4] Subsystems	[5] Other information
  Quick Links:	FAQ	KSC page	O3a, O3b	F2F Dec 2019	YourActionRequired
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News

• LIGO Data Grid access is available. See [kagra 03375] and here.

• Application to access account for LVC resources. See [kagra 03376] and apply from here. Application to the KAGRA Author List 2019, by March 6 (extended). See [kagra 03345] apply from here.

• FAQ (Frequently Asked Question page) is open. The sample of Acknowledgment.

  • O3a, O3b information pages, and YourActionRequired, Collaboration MoU, O3CommitmentForm pages are now separated.

• Coming meetings

  • The 2020 March LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA telecon: starts March 13 (Fri) 00:00 JST, 90 minutes

    • Status of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, GEO, and else.

      The agenda is here (requires password). The Zoom meeting access from here. Meeting ID and password were circulated by e-mail March 10.

  • KAGRA telecon: May 27 (Wed) & 28 (Thur), 2020 @ Zoom3

    • Alternative to the cancelled Face-to-Face meeting, we will have a telecon for two days, on May 27 and 28.

      See F2F page

  • The 2020 March LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA meeting: at Lake Geneva, WI, USA, 2020 March 16 (Mon) - 19 (Thur).

    • web site Note that the meeting was cancelled due to the current worldwide outbreak of coronavirus. see [kagra 03386].

  • The KAGRA Face-to-Face meeting: at ICRR, Univ. Tokyo, 2020 April 17 (Fri) - 19 (Sun).

    • This meeting was cancelled due to the current worldwide outbreak of coronavirus.

• Postponement of meetings
  • The 7th KAGRA International Workshop (KIW7) at National Central University in Taiwan (planned in the end of May, 2020) will be held in July or August 2020.
  • GWADW at Hokkaido (planned in the middle of May, 2020) is postponed a year.

  Recent meetings

  • KSC Remote Meeting (KSC telecon) before F2F, November 22 (Fri) 17:00 JST. See Agenda The 24th KAGRA Face-to-Face meeting: at RESCUE, 2019 December 4 (Wed) - 5 (Thur). web site The 23rd KAGRA Face-to-Face meeting: at Univ. Toyama, 2019 August 22 (Thur) - 24 (Sat). web site

    • We had 140 participants. Thank you for your contributions.

    The registration page will open July 16 (Tue). deadline of registration with KAGRA-site tour : July 31, 2019 (23:59 JST) deadline of registration : August 7, 2019 (23:59 JST) See you in Toyama soon. Registration was closed. Program Advisory Committee (PAB) was held at ICRR, Kashiwa campus on May 9(Thur) to 10(Fri), 2019 The 6th KAGRA International workshop: at Wuhan, China, 2019 June 21 (Fri) - 23 (Sun). web site The important deadlines are: deadline of abstract and poster : May 20, 2019 deadline of hotel reservation : June 1, 2019 Oral presentation submission: January 13, 2019 Poster submission: January 27, 2019

  ICRR's Fiscal Year 2020 Inter-University Research Program English page, Japanese page (application deadline: January 7, 2020)

[1] Links

[2] KSC contents

KSC = KAGRA Scientific Congress

KAGRA Data Analysis Working Group

• Application form for an account of KAGRA Main Storage System

KAGRA Documents

• MOU

• KAGRA Document Tree

• KAGRA design document Ver 3.0

• Interface Control Document (ICD) (Also see Interface Control wiki)

• System Engineering Management Plan (SEMP)

• FAQ (frequently asked questions) to the KAGRA collaboration (under editing)

• CPC publication policy (inc. the procedure to submit for the JSPS meetings)

• CPC submission Page

[3] Site Access information

• KAGRA website (Japanese, English)

• ATTENTION! No stores in Mozumi(KAGRA site area). Please bring your own food and drinks.

• Access to KAGRA site

  • Bus/Train time table (From December 12, 2019)

• Site Shift information

• Accommodation during KAGRA stay: YUKI house in Kamioka / Locomotion in Osawano:

  • Reservation page

  • User application form for ICRR-KAGRA accommodations

  • YUKI house

    • Access to Yuki house

    • Yuki house Manual(Japanese)(English)

    • How to enjoy Kamioka

  • Locomotion

    • Access to Locomotion (Japanese)(English)Locomotion⇔KAGRA site by public transportation(English)

    • Locomotion Manual (Japanese)(English)

• How to take garbage away in KAGRA site (in Japanese): Manual

How to work at the KAGRA site?

• Material of morning meeting in the Dropbox folder (in Japanese): Take a file named today's date.

• Application to enter the KAGRA mine: Application page

• How to purchase items you need (in Japanese): Proceedure

• Application for requesting mine work to Kamioka-kougyo (in Japanese): Application form

• 1F TV meeting room at Kenkyu-to(Hokubu-kaikan): Reservation page

• 2F meeting room at Kenkyu-to(Hokubu-kaikan): Reservation page

• Reservation for Zoom

• Reservation for the Koach Filters

Technical information

• Table of KAGRA location (Table)

[4] Subsystems

[5] Other information

Target Sensitivity of bKAGRA

• Sensitivity data can be downloaded from JGW-T1707038

• Website about the KAGRA sensitivity is here.

• Parameter list is here.

Others

• Misc. (tools, past discussions, etc.)

• 合同サブグループ説明会

• Student meeting

• 干渉計基礎レク

• For Young Researchers

• Materials for Visitors Slides, Posters etc. to guide visitors of KAGRA

• KAGRA CG Illustrations Stunning CG Illustrations by Rey.Hori

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