Sentences with phrase «gravity wave sources»

Among his prestigious awards is the Helen B. Warner Prize from the American Astronomical Society for fundamental work on stellar structure, including nuclear burning on neutron stars, the role of neutron stars as gravity wave sources, and the theory of lithium depletion.

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.

Not exact matches

Researchers at MIT have now identified a less dramatic though far more pervasive source of acoustic - gravity waves: surface ocean waves, such as those that can be seen from a beach or the deck of a boat.

Gravity waves should be generated by many sources, including colliding black holes and exploding stars, but LISA should also be able to detect waves created immediately after the birth of the cosmos.

Being able to detect gravity waves from sources ten times farther away means an increase of a thousand times the volume of space or a thousand times the number of possible sources.

«Source tracing of thunderstorm generated inertia - gravity waves observed during the RADAGAST campaign in Niamey, Niger.»

Gravity - friction (which produce wave action, which transfers kinetic energy into heat) is a source of energy transfer at the surface, as is any flowing water and its passage to the sea.