Showing posts with label LIGO. Show all posts
Showing posts with label LIGO. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 06, 2019

Music of the Universe

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"In a special public lecture webcast at Perimeter Institute on October 23, 2019, Gabriela González will provide a first-hand account of...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Hey LIGO

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Hey LIGO *** How’s it going, LIGO?  Members of the public can use Hey LIGO; they just might be disappointed if they’re look...
Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Gravitational Waves detected by LIGO

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See Also: LIGO again detects gravitational waves    The scientists detected the gravitational waves using the twin Laser Interferomet...

LIGO experiment’s discovery of gravitational waves

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LIGO Livingston observatory. Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab. Scientists from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Virgo C...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

The Sound of Two Black Holes Colliding

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Audio Credit: Caltech/MIT/LIGO Lab  As the black holes spiral closer and closer in together, the frequency of the gravitational waves i...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016

No-Hair Theorem

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The no-hair theorem postulates that all black hole solutions of the Einstein-Maxwell equations of gravitation and electromagnetism in g...

Is Gravity Now part of the Standard Model?

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I leave this as a open question as I will be compiling information in this regard. If the initial configuration of the source is being tra...
Saturday, February 06, 2016

When Black Holes Collide

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See also: What Happens When Black Holes Collide? - Kip Thorne  
Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Proofing BICEP2

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Inflation—the hypothesis that the Universe underwent a phase of superluminal expansion in a brief period following the big bang—has the p...
Thursday, April 10, 2014

The Map of B Mode Imprints

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Figure 3: Left: BICEP2 apodized E -mode and B -mode maps filtered to 50 < ℓ < 120. Right: The equivalent maps for the first of t...
Saturday, December 21, 2013

Weber Bars Ring True?

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Gravitational Radiation Gravitational waves have a polarization pattern that causes objects to expand in one direction, while contr...
Thursday, August 29, 2013

How to Find Black holes with Lasers

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In February 2013 I was invited by the Institute of Physics to give a lecture in the famous lecture theatre of the Royal Institution of ...
Saturday, May 04, 2013

The LIGO and Virgo Gravitational-Wave Detectors

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An artist's impression of two stars orbiting each other (left). The orbit shrinks as the system emits gravitational waves (mid...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Observational Gravitational-Wave Astronomy.

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Figure 1: Gravitational wave strain and strain sensitivity for a 5 year observation with PTAs. The red dashed line is the approximate st...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Brian Clegg: Gravity

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A history of gravity, and a study of its importance and relevance to our lives, as well as its influence on other areas of science.  ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Core Optics

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A pair of polished Advanced LIGO end mirrors (ETM's) Core optics are the 40-kg masses that form the heart of a LIGO detector. A ...
Wednesday, December 01, 2010

Holometer

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Holometer Revised This plot shows the sensitivity of various experiments to fluctuations in space and time. Horizontal axis is the log o...
Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Gravity is Talking, LISA will Listen

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It seems by measure the Interferometer has come a long way. If one recognizes how gravitational waves are measured, you come to understand h...
Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Correlating Gravitational Wave Production in LIGO

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Drawing by Glen Edwards, Utah State University, Logan, UT The most important thing is to be motivated by your own intellectual curiosity....
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