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by YZF 3307 days ago
The detector is isolated, see here: https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/LA/page/vibration-isolation

Essentially a combination of passive/active isolation that effectively completely decouples the system from the environment.

I went to a talk by one of the lead scientists in LIGO and they spent a lot of effort on this. I believe the sites are also fairly remote so they don't have trucks driving nearby.

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Oh: "LIGO's mirrors must be so well shielded from vibration that the random motion of the atoms within the mirrors and their housings can be detected."