LIGO, High Gear Science Run |
LIGO, High Gear Science Run |
Mar 3 2006, 03:05 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 624 Joined: 10-August 05 Member No.: 460 |
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=19142
QUOTE ST. LOUIS, Mo. -- The quest to detect and study gravitational waves with the NSF-funded Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is now in the fourth month of its first sustained science run since achieving its promised design sensitivity, project personnel announced at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). ... Now that the LIGO is sensitive enough to detect changes in distance a mere thousandth the diameter of a proton, Marx adds, the science return should be even greater. Recent results from the Swift satellite pinpointing the location of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have also heightened astronomers' interest in the results from LIGO's current observational run. That level of sensitivity is, in my opinion, the most incredible technical achievement since the VLA. The very long gamma ray associated with supernova/hypernova 1996aj should also be of great interest. |
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Feb 11 2016, 06:36 PM
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Director of Galilean Photography Group: Members Posts: 896 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 93 |
Nice article about the post-doc who was monitoring when the event occurred:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/her...itational-waves -------------------- Space Enthusiast Richard Hendricks
-- "The engineers, as usual, made a tremendous fuss. Again as usual, they did the job in half the time they had dismissed as being absolutely impossible." --Rescue Party, Arthur C Clarke Mother Nature is the final inspector of all quality. |
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Feb 11 2016, 07:08 PM
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Junior Member Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 22-May 08 From: Loughborough Member No.: 4121 |
Nice article about the post-doc who was monitoring when the event occurred: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/her...itational-waves Great stuff. "He reached only one of the facilities—“Livingston, I think,” he says—but was told all was normal". If only his words were "Livingston, I presume" |
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