Sentences with phrase «gravitational signal»

In fact, the experiment is so delicate that unrelated events such as an airplane flying overhead, wind buffeting the building or tiny seismic shifts in the ground beneath the detector can disturb the lasers in ways that mimic gravitational signals.

Further, departure time and routes of travel were correlated with physical cues such as magnetic inclination, moon phase, and gravitational signals.

Radio astronomers search instead for the gravitational signals from these binaries.

McEnery says she found out about the gravitational signal as a coy rumor from a colleague who works on both Fermi and LIGO.

Two seconds after the gravitational signal, which only the automated «trigger» of the Hanford detector initially noticed, NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope picked up a blast of high - energy photons called a gamma ray burst.

Within minutes, researchers at the Livingston and Virgo detectors confirmed the gravitational signal in their data.

Last week, the twin detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) delivered on that promise, as physicists announced the first detection of a gravitational signal — and, with it, a stellar surprise.

Liu, J., T. Schneider, and L. N. Fletcher, 2014: Constraining the depth of Saturn's zonal winds by measuring thermal and gravitational signals.

Liu, J., T. Schneider, and Y. Kaspi, 2013: Predictions of thermal and gravitational signals of Jupiter's deep zonal winds.

Since the gravitational signal is stronger closer to Earth, the «arrow - like», five - metre long GOCE satellite has been designed to cut through of what remains of the Earth's atmosphere at just 250 km above the surface of the planet.