Sentences with phrase «triangulate 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.
Because all three gravitational - wave detectors saw the signal, physicists could triangulate and locate the source to within a 30 - square - degree patch of sky — about 60 times the size of the moon and much more precise than Fermi's localization.