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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Oct 22 2017, 02:24 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 933 Joined: 4-September 06 From: Boston Member No.: 1102 |
It is amazing that a lid was successfully placed on the news and the findings were successfully announcement at one time. An article in Science stated that the huge teams of physicists were unprepared for the chaos of astronomers in small competing groups---but they came together on one giant paper submitted to The Astrophysical Letters with 4600 authors--one third of the astronomy community. Wow, talk of big science.
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