Not exact matches
Researchers are also interested in how the movement of
waves from water into rock, and vice versa, affects
signal detection.
But if there are astrophysical events that produce gravitational
waves at frequencies too high for LIGO to spot, their memory
signals might fall easily into the observatory's
detection range, thus allowing us to pick them up.
The challenge with miniaturization: Also achieving a broader dynamic range of
detection, for small
signals, such as sound, vibration, and radio
waves.
«The emitted gravitational -
wave signal and its potential
detection will inform researchers about the formation process of the first supermassive black holes in the still very young universe, and may settle some — and raise new — important questions on the history of our universe,» he says.
These
waves may constitute a sensitive
signal for motion
detection.
After the first direct
detection of gravitational
waves that was announced last February by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and made news all over the world, Luciano Rezzolla (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) and Cecilia Chirenti (Federal University of ABC in Santo André, Brazil) set out to test whether the observed
signal could have been a gravastar or not.
In 2016, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration reported the
detection of two separate
signals of gravitational
waves from the merger of black holes.
The very first
detection of gravitational
waves on 14 September 2015:
Signals received by the LIGO instruments at Hanford, Washington (left) and Livingston, Louisiana (right) and comparisons of these signals to the signals expected due to a black hole merger
Signals received by the LIGO instruments at Hanford, Washington (left) and Livingston, Louisiana (right) and comparisons of these
signals to the signals expected due to a black hole merger
signals to the
signals expected due to a black hole merger
signals expected due to a black hole merger event.
These gravitational
waves had traveled 1.8 billion light - years to reach us and, like the three confirmed
detections that came before it, this
signal — called GW170814 — was caused by two stellar black holes colliding and merging as one.
The announced
detection marked the first time a gravitational
wave signal was detected by all three operating facilities.
The current sensitivity of LIGO has already enabled us to put new limits on gravitational
wave signals, although the direct
detection of gravitational
waves is still a future goal.
New «deep learning» algorithms are expected to improve the
detection of gravitational
wave signals and, with additional work, may help identify electromagnetic counterparts to gravity
wave events