Astronomical observatories

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81General relativity / Astronomical observatories / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Virgo interferometer / ALLEGRO / GEO 600 / LIGO Scientific Collaboration / Physics / Gravitation / Astronomy

UPPER LIMITS ON A STOCHASTIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVE BACKGROUND USING LIGO AND VIRGO INTERFEROMETERS AT 600 – 1000 HZ Using data taken between November 2005 and September 2007, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Ob

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Source URL: www.ligo.org

Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:51:04
82General relativity / Star types / Astronomical observatories / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Virgo interferometer / Neutron star / Binary star / Laser Interferometer Space Antenna / Physics / Astronomy / Gravitation

SENSITIVITY OF LIGO AND VIRGO GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS TO COMPACT BINARY INSPIRALS Scientists expect that neutron stars and black holes – the superdense remnants of dead stars – bound together in close orbits wil

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:52:56
83General relativity / LIGO / Gravitational wave detector / Gravitational wave / GEO 600 / Squeezed coherent state / Michelson interferometer / Vacuum / Photon / Physics / Gravitation / Astronomical observatories

THE QUANTUM ENHANCED LIGO DETECTOR SETS NEW SENSITIVITY RECORD Recent progress in generating quantum states of squeezed vacuum has made it possible to enhance the sensitivity of the 4 km gravitational wave detector at th

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:55:16
84General relativity / Gravitation / Observational astronomy / Plasma physics / LIGO / Astronomical observatories / Gravitational wave / X-ray astronomy / Gamma-ray burst / Physics / Astronomy / Space

X-RAYS AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVES: LIGO AND VIRGO POINT THE WAY FOR THE SWIFT SATELLITE Seeing and hearing something at the same time can teach you more than you could learn with just one sense. In the same way, combining g

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:53:58
85General relativity / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Virgo interferometer / Astronomical observatories / Noise / Gravitational wave detector / GEO 600 / Physics / Gravitation / Astronomy

VIRGO DATA CHARACTERIZATION AND IMPACT ON GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SEARCHES A world-wide network of gravitational-wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, GEO) is searching for gravitational waves (GW) emitted by astrophysical sources. To

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:55:44
86Gravitation / Space / General relativity / Black holes / Astronomical observatories / Gravitational wave / LIGO / Neutron star / Pulsar / Astronomy / Physics / Star types

SEARCHING FOR THE CONTINUOUS SOUNDS OF UNKNOWN NEUTRON STARS IN BINARY SYSTEMS We have conducted the first ever search for the continuous gravitational waves emitted by spinning neutron stars in binary systems that have

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Language: English - Date: 2014-06-30 13:53:31
87Science / General relativity / LIGO / Astronomical observatories / Gravitational wave / Observational astronomy / Black hole / Virgo interferometer / Star / Physics / Astronomy / Gravitation

FIRST LOW-LATENCY LIGO+VIRGO SEARCH FOR BINARY INSPIRALS AND THEIR ELECTROMAGNETIC COUNTERPARTS The inspirals of neutron stars with either another neutron star or a black hole are among the most energetic astronomical ev

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:52:15
88Star types / Radio astronomy / General relativity / Astronomical observatories / Gravitational wave / Einstein@Home / LIGO / Pulsar / Neutron star / Astronomy / Physics / Gravitation

SEARCHING FOR CONTINUOUS GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SIGNALS WITH THE HOUGH TRANSFORM Spinning neutron stars are promising candidates for producing gravitational wave signals detectable by the LIGO and Virgo laser interferometer

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Source URL: www.ligo.org

Language: English - Date: 2013-11-25 13:11:57
89Binary stars / General relativity / Astronomical observatories / Star types / LIGO / Gravitational wave / GEO 600 / Virgo interferometer / Neutron star / Physics / Astronomy / Gravitation

CLEANING UP LIGO DATA Nearly a century ago, Einstein predicted gravitational waves, ripples in space and time that travel at the speed of light, as part of his general theory of relativity. The energy carried by these wa

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Language: English - Date: 2014-11-03 12:44:28
90Astronomy / European Space Agency / Telescopes / Hubble Space Telescope / James Webb Space Telescope / Spectroscopy / European Southern Observatory / Integral field spectrograph / Observatory / Spaceflight / Spacecraft / Space telescopes

Flagship Missions for the Decadal Review James Green, University of Colorado I believe that flagship missions should be “Observatories” and need to be designed to serve the astronomical community for decades. As such

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Source URL: cor.gsfc.nasa.gov

Language: English - Date: 2015-03-31 10:08:39
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