Sentences with phrase «binary coalescence»
«We have observed — on the 4th of January, 2017 — another massive black hole - black hole binary coalescence; the in - spiral and merging of black holes 20 and 30 times the mass of our sun,» Dave Shoemaker, a senior research scientist who works at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the spokesperson for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, told reporters during a special news briefing on Wednesday (May 31).
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In the last years he has focused in the emerging area of Gravitational Wave Astronomy, which consists in the detection and analysis of gravitational radiation emitted by cosmic sources (core collapse supernovae, compact binary coalescence, etc.).
Hanna has served as co-chair of the Compact Binary Coalescence Group of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), and is one of the primary data analysts involved in this research.
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GW170814: A three - detector observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole coalescence.
«They are the most complete and accurate models of binary black - hole coalescence.»
On July 6, Lazzati's team of theorists had published a paper predicting that, contrary to earlier estimates by the astrophysics community, short gamma - ray bursts associated with the gravitational emission of binary neutron star coalescence could be detected — whether or not the gamma - ray burst was pointing at Earth.
«All observations until the last one were from the coalescence of binary black hole systems,» Lazzati said.
These findings were published in Physical Review Letters the week of October 11 in a paper titled «Formation and Coalescence of Cosmological Supermassive - Black - Hole Binaries in Supermassive - Star Collapse.»
GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22 - Solar - mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence.
The research paper, «GW151226: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a 22 Solar - mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence,» by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, has been accepted for publication in the journal Physical Review Letters.
More information: GW170608: Observation of a 19 - solar - mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence, arXiv: 1711.05578 [astro - ph.
A paper describing the newly confirmed observation, «GW170608: Observation of a 19 - solar - mass binary black hole coalescence,» authored by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters and is available to read on the arXiv.
The inferred source of both events is the coalescence of a stellar mass binary black hole system at cosmological distances.