Sentences with phrase «for gravitational wave sources»

But the pomp will belie nagging problems that are likely to keep Virgo from joining its U.S. counterpart, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), in a hunt for gravitational wave sources that was meant to start next month.

Not exact matches

The source of a mysterious glitch in data from a gravitational wave detector has been unmasked: rap - tap - tapping ravens with a thirst for shaved ice.

The NASA / ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed for the first time the source of a gravitational wave, created by the merger of two neutron stars.

«Hubble observes source of gravitational waves for the first time.»

BlackGEM is going to hunt down optical counterparts of sources of gravitational waves — tiny ripples in spacetime generated by colliding black holes and neutron stars and detected for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observgravitational waves — tiny ripples in spacetime generated by colliding black holes and neutron stars and detected for the first time in 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave ObservGravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO).

For the first time, theoretical physicists from the University of Basel have calculated the signal of specific gravitational wave sources that emerged fractions of a second after the Big Bang.

When the gravitational wave event GW170817 was detected, astronomers rushed to search for the source using conventional telescopes (see the Introduction by Smith).

Physicists have known for decades that every pair of orbiting bodies is a source of gravitational waves.

On August 17, LIGO sent alerts for a gravitational wave detection from colliding neutron stars to observatories around the world, firing a «starter's pistol» in the race to spot the source of the space - time ripples.

The potential for such observations will be enhanced when new and existing interferometers start up alongside LIGO, allowing improved sensitivity and better pinpointing of gravitational - wave sources.

The group in which he works is involved in the instrumental development for the LISA PathFinder mission (ESA), a technology precursor mission for a future space - based gravitational - wave observatory, LISA, which will detect the gravitational radiation from low frequency sources like massive black hole mergers, inspiraling stellar compact objects into massive black holes, and galactic binaries.

His work has also provided the theoretical underpinnings for LIGO; he and his colleagues have established target sources of gravitational waves and carried out numerical simulations of the kind that allowed the September 2015 signal to be identified as a pair of merging black holes.

Another of his recent work, on how to strategically point telescopes to find electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources, was adapted for observations by the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico, which successfully observed radio emission from the merger.

«Over the next years, LIGO will be putting general relativity to its most stringent tests ever, it will be discovering new sources of gravitational waves, and we will be using telescopes on the ground and in space to search for light emitted by these catastrophic events.»