Gravitational wave

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261Physics / Gamma-ray burst / LIGO / InterPlanetary Network / Gravitational wave detector / Gravitational wave / Gamma-ray burst progenitors / GRB 060614 / Astronomy / Space / Gamma-ray bursts

SEARCHING FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES ASSOCIATED WITH GAMMA-RAY BURSTS DETECTED BY THE INTERPLANETARY NETWORK There are many instruments which can detect gamma-rays operating in space, and they sometimes observe bright flash

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Language: English - Date: 2014-05-01 17:57:13
262Gravitation / Light sources / General relativity / Astrophysics / Gravitational wave / LIGO / Neutron star / Supernova / Gamma-ray burst / Physics / Astronomy / Space

SCANNING THE SKIES FOR COSMIC EXPLOSIONS: FIRST SEARCH FOR OPTICAL COUNTERPARTS TO GRAVITATIONAL WAVES The joint observation of an astronomical event with both light and gravitational waves would certainly be one of the

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-08 12:33:51
263General 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
264General 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
265Star types / General relativity / Gravitation / Gamma-ray burst / Magnetar / LIGO / Neutron star / Gravitational wave / Gamma-ray burst progenitors / Astronomy / Physics / Space

IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF GRBFROM LIGO OBSERVATIONS A recent analysis of observations made by the LIGO detectors has decisively ruled out the collision of two neutron stars or a neutron star and a black hole

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:44:08
266General relativity / Star types / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Neutron star / Black hole / Virgo interferometer / Gravitational wave astronomy / Binary star / Physics / Astronomy / Gravitation

A SEARCH FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVES FROM INSPIRALING NEUTRON STARS AND BLACK HOLES Using data taken between July 2009 and October 2010, researchers from the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) Scienti

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Language: English - Date: 2013-11-06 17:52:37
267Gravitation / 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
268Gravitation / Binary stars / Galaxies / Star types / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Binary black hole / General relativity / Numerical relativity / Physics / Astronomy / Black holes

CAN WE HEAR BLACK HOLES COLLIDE? TESTING OUR SEARCH METHOD USING NUMERICALLY GENERATED GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE SIGNALS Many of the stars in the nearby universe are not too different from our Sun: relatively small and long-liv

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Language: English - Date: 2014-01-16 20:23:47
269Science / 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
270Space / LIGO / Gravitational wave / Stellar black hole / General relativity / Supermassive black hole / Intermediate-mass black hole / Binary black hole / Galaxy / Physics / Astronomy / Black holes

OBSERVING THE INVISIBLE COLLISIONS OF INTERMEDIATE MASS BLACK HOLES THE DARK GIANTS OF THE UNIVERSE Black holes are among the most intriguing and mysterious objects in our Universe and are generated when space and time a

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Language: English - Date: 2014-04-11 19:03:56
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