Sentences with phrase «gravitational wave sources»

«The farther out you can look, the more galaxies, and hence more gravitational wave sources, are visible to you,» Mavalvala says.

Italy's Advanced Virgo instrument will come online this fall in conjunction with LIGO, allowing astronomers to pinpoint 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.

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.

By studying computer simulations of astrophysical phenomena, scientists can figure out what type of signals to expect from various gravitational wave sources.

A third LIGO detector will allow researchers to triangulate gravitational wave sources and train other telescopes on the same part of the sky to learn more.

Nature seems to behave as we would have expected, which is that it has produced not only a very powerful gravitational wave source like what we have detected and are talking about now, but also a not - so - powerful one of the same kind.

Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source.

A kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source.

Early spectra of the gravitational wave source GW170817: Evolution of a neutron star merger.

The Hubble Space Telescope has made at least three sets of observations in that vicinity, including one on August 22 seeking «observations of the first electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources.»

«It ties this object to the gravitational wave source beyond all reasonable doubt.»

D. A. Coulter et al., «Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source,» Science (16 October 2017)

B. J. Shappee et al., «Early spectra of the gravitational wave source GW170817: Evolution of a neutron star merger,» Science (16 October 2017)

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.