Sentences with phrase «wave detectors even»

Trimble, who now works at the University of California, Irvine, notes that Weber worked on his gravitational wave detectors even after the National Science Foundation (NSF) cut off his funding in 1987 and shifted its focus to developing LIGO — the agency ultimately spent more than $ 1 billion on it.

Not exact matches

Thanks to new detectors that can pick up neutrino signals and even gravitational waves, scientists will be ready when the next nearby star explodes, Emily Conover reported in «Waiting for a supernova» (SN: 2/18/17, p. 24).

Vigelius and Melatos believe that such waves could even be observable by the existing LIGO detector, depending on how massive the mountains on nearby neutron stars have grown.

Funding has yet to materialise, but after last Thursday's announcement, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi tweeted that he hopes «to move forward to make even bigger contribution with an advanced gravitational wave detector in the country».

There are many things besides gravitational waves that can upset LIGO's sensitive instrumentation, including vehicles on nearby roads, seismic waves from earthquakes, slight temperature differences between the detector arms and even the tidal tugging of the Sun and the Moon.

At 7:41 a.m. local Livingston time that morning, the Fermi Gamma - ray Space Telescope, LIGO Hanford and the Virgo gravitational wave detector in Europe had all detected two incredibly dense objects called neutron stars smashing into each other — an event some astronomers thought they would have to wait years or even decades to see.

Two detectors can even determine a rough direction as to where the wave was traveling from, but if more detectors are added to the network, astronomers hope to eventually pinpoint, with increasing precision, where they originate.