Gravitational wave

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251Matter / Exotic matter / Black holes / Dark matter / Gravitation / Gravitational wave / Neutron star / LIGO / X-ray astronomy / Astronomy / Physics / Star types

COMBING INITIAL LIGO DATA FOR THE POTENTIALLY STRONG CONTINUOUS WAVE EMITTER SCORPIUS X-1 We present results of a search for continuously emitted gravitational waves from the neutron star in the brightest low-mass X-ray

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Language: English - Date: 2014-12-10 14:35:10
252Cosmic string / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Cosmic microwave background radiation / String theory / Big Bang / Cosmic Background Explorer / Dark matter / Gravitational wave detector / Physics / Astronomy / Physical cosmology

DO COSMIC STRINGS EXIST? Cosmic strings are objects that may have formed in the early Universe, but scientists are still searching for evidence that they exist. They were first introduced by theoretical physicist Tom W.

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-25 13:12:19
253Exotic matter / Mediterranean / Dark matter / Neutrino / LIGO / ANTARES / Gravitational wave / Laser Interferometer Space Antenna / IceCube Neutrino Observatory / Physics / Neutrino astronomy / Neutrinos

NEW COSMIC MESSENGERS: FIRST JOINT SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND HIGH ENERGY NEUTRINOS Many of the violent phenomena observed in our Universe are potential emitters of gravitational waves and high energy neutrinos.

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:45:55
254Gravitation / General relativity / Astrophysics / Galaxies / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Micro black hole / Supermassive black hole / Stellar black hole / Physics / Astronomy / Black holes

RINGING OF THE COSMIC BELLS: A SEARCH FOR BLACK HOLE VIBRATIONS THE SOUND OF A PERTURBED BLACK HOLE Every star in the universe vibrates or oscillates in some manner. Turbulence on the surface of the Sun causes well-known

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Language: English - Date: 2014-03-31 13:14:18
255Binary stars / Gravitation / General relativity / Gravitational wave / LIGO / Binary black hole / Gravitational wave astronomy / Tests of general relativity / Physics / Astronomy / Black holes

DANCE OF THE DEAD STARS: A SEARCH FOR MASSIVE BINARY BLACK HOLE COALESCENCES Many of the stars in the nearby universe are not too different from our Sun: relatively small and long-lived, shining for billions of years. Bu

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:51:57
256General relativity / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Gamma-ray burst / Neutron star / Virgo interferometer / Gamma ray / Black hole / Gravitational wave astronomy / Physics / Astronomy / Gravitation

A SEARCH FOR LONG-LIVED GRAVITATIONAL WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH LONG GAMMA-RAY BURSTS The LIGO and Virgo observatories seek to detect gravitational waves—minute ripples in the fabric of spacetime, which can be created by t

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-08 12:33:07
257Neutrino astronomy / Neutrinos / Gravitation / General relativity / IceCube Neutrino Observatory / University of Wisconsin–Madison / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Neutrino / Physics / Astronomy / Matter

CAPTURING INVISIBLE COSMIC EXPLOSIONS SEARCHING FOR COMMON SOURCES OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES AND HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS WITH LIGO, VIRGO AND ICECUBE Cosmic explosions are excellent natural laboratories with which to learn ab

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Language: English - Date: 2014-07-08 14:20:29
258General 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
259Star types / Exotic matter / Stellar evolution / Dark matter / Gravitation / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Neutron star / Supernova / Astronomy / Physics / Space

SEARCHING FOR THE YOUNGEST NEUTRON STARS IN THE GALAXY Black holes may be getting all the press these days, but neutron stars are more complicated and involve more physics: These collapsed stars are almost as compact and

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Language: English - Date: 2015-01-12 13:59:41
260Gravitation / General relativity / Gravitational wave / LIGO / GEO 600 / Mass / Virgo interferometer / Cosmic microwave background radiation / Inflation / Physics / Astronomy / Physical cosmology

SEARCHING FOR A BACKGROUND BUZZ OF GRAVITATIONAL WAVES There has been a lot of chatter in the news about the exciting findings of the BICEP2 experiment. But what do they mean? If the results are confirmed, BICEP2 will ha

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Language: English - Date: 2014-06-30 14:05:18
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