Sentences with phrase «gravity wave detector»

France and Italy could begin building a gravity wave detector next year.

«We're kind of where we were 40 years ago with gravity wave detectors,» Worden says.

Not exact matches

Later this year, European partners of the LIGO collaboration plan to restart their revamped gravity wave observatory, Advanced Virgo, near Pisa, Italy, providing a crucial third ultrasensitive detector for pinpointing gravity wave sources.

The European Space Agency's LISA Pathfinder mission will primarily test gravitational - wave detectors, but from next year it could also confirm whether gravity is all general relativity says it is.

But just as scientists use radio and gamma - ray telescopes to probe different frequencies of light, physicists are building detectors sensitive to a range of gravity wave frequencies.

These waves look very different in the cyclic model, and those differences could be measured — as soon as physicists develop an effective gravity - wave detector.

«In the 1970s, Kip Thorne [Caltech's Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics, Emeritus] and others wrote papers saying that these pulsars should be emitting gravity waves that are nearly perfectly periodic, so we're thinking hard about how to use these techniques on a gram - scale object to reduce quantum noise in detectors, thus increasing the sensitivity to pick up on those gravity waves,» Schwab says.

In addition, the space - based gravity - wave detector LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) will be launched sometime around 2012.

The detector, called VIRGO, will try to measure the elusive gravity waves which are thought to ripple through the Universe after violent events such as the collapse of a star to form a black hole.

Although nobody has yet detected gravitational waves, detectors now being built in the US and Italy («Gravity's secret signals», New Scientist, 26 November 1994), which will become operational early next decade, should be sensitive enough to detect the gravitational waves released during the last few minutes of a binary neutron star merger.

None of these spacecraft were designed to detect gravity waves, but in a three - week experiment running until 11 April they will form part of a detector.

Bernard Schutz, professor of astrophysics at the University of Wales College of Cardiff, says he is confident that these detectors will spot gravity waves before the end of the decade.

The Experimental Gravity group at Columbia University (GECo) is dedicated to the advancement of the experimental gravitational wave science, with a special emphasis on astrophysical trigger based data analysis, detector characterization and timing studies.