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LIGO: the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory

This is the main LIGO instrument paper. Daw was an active member of the LIGO commissioning team. He achieved first digital control of the Phase Noise Interferometer at MIT, the first digital control of interferometer differential length. Daw developed key diagnostics, notably the band limited RMS monitor and core IIR filter generation code and wrote the core power spectral density estimation code used throughout LIGO commissioning. He achieved first lock of the short Michelson at LIGO Livingston. These and other subsystems that Daw contributed are crucial to the successful operation of LIGO.