Sentences with phrase «wave detector located»

Not exact matches

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.

The project was set up in February 2005 as way of searching for gravitational waves (also emitted by pulsars) in data collected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) detector instruments located in Livingston, La., and on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash..

LIGO has one detector in Louisiana and another in Washington to ensure the wave is not a local phenomenon and to help locate its source.

Both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors — located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington — detected this gravitational wave event, named GW151226.

The gravitational waves were detected on September 14, 2015 at 5:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (09:51 UTC) by both of the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational - wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, USA.

Bose is helping to develop a third LIGO detector in India that will provide the triangulation necessary to more precisely locate gravitational wave - producing objects in space.

Although Virgo is less sensitive than LIGO, having a third gravitational wave detector working to measure these rumbles in space - time boosts the precision of trying to locate which galaxy the black holes collided in.

The search for gravitational waves will soon gain an additional set of ears, in the form of Virgo, a similar detector located near Pisa, Italy, that is scheduled to come online this summer and will pair with LIGO.