Kagra Gallery

A1 A bird’s eye view image of KAGRA, together with Super-Kamiokande, EGADS, XMASS and KamLAND. KAGRA locates at the underneath of Mt. Ikenoyama, the border of Gifu and Toyama prefectures, Japan.

A2 A bird’s eye view image of KAGRA. The 3-km arms and the center part are illustrated.

B1 KAGRA’s arm tunnel (X arm). The vacuum pipe is 80cm-diameter and 3km-long.	B2 KAGRA’s arm tunnel(X arm). Photo taken in November, 2018.
B3 KAGRA’s arm tunnel(X arm). Photo taken in November, 2018.	B4 KAGRA’s arm tunnel(X arm). Photo taken in November, 2018.
B5 View from an electric tricycle, moving in the X-arm.	B6 KAGRA’s arm tunnel. An electric tricycle is visible in the distance. Photo taken in November 2018.

C1 The crossing of two arms, seeing from the top of the Y-arm. The laser beam is injected from the right side of this picture. Photo taken September 2019. Photo taken in September 2019.

D1 A cryostat to cool down a sapphire mirror. Photo taken in August 2019.	D2 A sapphire mirror for KAGRA. 22cm diameter, 15cm thick and 23kg weight. Photo taken in August 2018.
D3 A sapphire mirror in a cryogenic suspension system. Photo taken in January 2019. (c) Rohan Mehra, provided via ICRR, Univ. of Tokyo	D4 Installing a sapphire mirror with a cryogenic suspension system into a cryostat. The red paint on the surface of the mirror is for protect the mirror from dust. Photo taken in November 2018.
D5 Adjusting the position of the sapphire mirror installed in a cryostat. Photo taken in November 2018.	D6 A vacuum vessel holding a beam splitter inside. Photo taken in August 2018.

E1 The entrance of the KAGRA Tunnel (1). Photo taken in August 2018.

E2 The entrance of the KAGRA Tunnel (2). Photo taken in August 2018.

Enrico Sacchetti’s photographies

Photographer Enrico Sacchetti visited KAGRA in 2019 and produced artworks shown below.
Contact Enrico Sacchetti via http://www.es-photography.com/ if you want to use a photo in his collection.
For KAGRA collaborator: Visit GWDoc for the image usage.

The rules of photo usage

Please respect the rules below when you use any photo in this gallery.

1. Personal use

It’s free to use personally on the desktop of your PC or in a photo stand in your room, etc. No need of report. However, a post on a SNS or a personal web page is NOT a personal usage. please see 3.

2. News articles

You may use images in this gallery without prior notice for the articles that require promptness, such as newspapers, magazines, TV programs, and web articles, related to the gravitational wave physics and astronomy. Please display credit properly and provide us a copy of your article after publish.

3. Other articles

To use in any articles other than above, please ask us permission via e-mail with information about your article (brief summary, name of the magazine, article URL, name of program/TV channel, date of publication, etc. and the number or URL of the image you want to use). We will reply within 2 working days. When we grant permission, please display credit and provide us a copy of the article after publication.

4. Academic usage

Researchers and related person in research institutes may use images in this gallery in their academic papers, lectures, conference presentations, and poster presentations without notice or report at their own responsibility. No need of prior notice or report. Please display credit properly.

5. Examples we decline usage

We decline image usages for novelty goods like T-shirts or mag-cups, Books, web pages, TV programs or commercial films not related to KAGRA or gravitational-wave physics or second usage like web parts collection. We also strictly refuse image usage in any articles slander others or violates public morals.

When you use an image:

When you use an image for the usage of above 2. – 4., please display credit properly. Otherwise individually specified, display “Photo courtesy: KAGRA Observatory, ICRR, The University of Tokyo”. If the space is limited, display “(c) ICRR” instead.

When you use an image for the usage of above 2. or 3., please send us a copy of your article, pdf file, DVD, or Web URL via e-mail or postal mail.

In any usage, do not use with an extreme cropping which may damage the design of the image, an excessive color change, or combine with unrelated images.

Contact, mailing address:

KAGRA PR office, Higashi-Mozumi 238, Kamioka, Hida, Gifu 506-1205 JAPAN
e-mail: kagra-pub_at_icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp　(Please replace _at_ by @)
Phone: +81 80-4800-8427, Fax: +81 578-85-2346

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