A planned six-month gravitational-wave observing run expected to begin between late October and mid-November 2026.
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Key facts
Status: scheduled
Time precision: unknown
IR1 is the designation for a planned observing run by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA collaborations. During such runs, detectors collect data to search for gravitational-wave signals; this is not an individual astronomical event already detected.
