Sentences with phrase «wave detectors sense»
For example, if gravitational wave detectors sense the merger of two neutron stars and telescopes pick up light or x-rays from it, the signals together might offer clues about the exotic matter in neutron stars.
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Pulsar timing detectors are best for sensing waves in which years pass between peaks; ground - based interferometers perk up when hit by waves oscillating hundreds of times per second.
Gravitational wave detectors of the future will refine our newly discovered «sense» by broadening the range of detectable gravitational waves and pinpointing their sources.
Four times in the past 2 years, physicists working with mammoth gravitational - wave detectors have sensed something go bump in the night, sending invisible ripples through spacetime.
For example, space - based frequency combs could improve the accuracy of global remote sensing of greenhouse gases from satellites and could be used for space - based gravitational wave detectors.
In September 2015, the gigantic LIGO detectors in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, sensed gravitational waves from two black holes weighing 29 and 36 times as much as the sun as they spiraled together and became one.
Last September, that dream came true as 1000 physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory, two huge detectors in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, sensed a pulse of waves radiated by two massive black holes as they spiraled into each other a billion light - years away.
Last September, that dream came true as 1000 physicists working with the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory (LIGO), two huge detectors in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Washington, sensed a pulse of waves radiated by two massive black holes as they spiraled into each other a billion light - years away.
As the neutron stars spiraled into each other, gravitational - wave detectors in the United States and Italy sensed ripples in space generated by the whirling bodies.
It was the first cosmic event in history to be witnessed via both traditional telescopes, which can observe electromagnetic radiation like gamma rays, and gravitational wave detectors, which sense the wrinkles in space - time produced by distant cataclysms.