LIGO (redirect from Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to...
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A gravitational-wave detector (used in a gravitational-wave observatory) is any device designed to measure tiny distortions of spacetime called gravitational...
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Cosmic Explorer is a proposed third generation ground-based gravitational wave observatory. Cosmic Explorer uses the same L-shaped design as the LIGO...
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the first dedicated space-based gravitational-wave observatory. It aims to measure gravitational waves directly by using laser interferometry. The LISA...
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The gravitational wave background (also GWB and stochastic background) is a random background of gravitational waves permeating the Universe, which is...
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by passing waves. Observatories like LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), Virgo and KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector)...
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Poincaré in 1905 as the gravitational equivalent of electromagnetic waves. In 1916, Albert Einstein demonstrated that gravitational waves result from his general...
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KAGRA (redirect from Large Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope)
Kamioka Observatory which is near the Kamioka section of the city of Hida in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. KAGRA is a project of the gravitational wave studies...
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perturbations, but are generated by gravitational waves during cosmic inflation shortly after the big bang. However, gravitational lensing of the stronger E-modes...
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portal Gravitational-wave astronomy – Branch of astronomy using gravitational waves Gravitational-wave observatory – Device used to measure gravitational waves...
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gravitational-wave search refers to the use of extremely large interferometers built on the ground to passively detect (or "observe") gravitational wave...
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and cosmic rays or gravitational waves. Thus, new types of observatories have been developed. Interferometers are at the core of gravitational wave detectors...
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Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) is a consortium of astronomers who share a common goal of detecting gravitational waves via regular...
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– (telescope) Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, an instrument for detecting gravitational waves LINEAR – (observing program) Lincoln...
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advanced experimental facilities for a multi-institutional observatory project in gravitational-wave astronomy to be located near Aundha Nagnath, Hingoli District...
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Taiji program (redirect from Taiji (gravitational wave observatory))
satellite-based gravitational-wave observatory. It is scheduled for launch in 2033 to study ripples in spacetime caused by gravitational waves. The program...
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The European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) is a consortium established to manage the Virgo interferometer and its related infrastructure, as well as...
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DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (or DECIGO) is a proposed Japanese, space-based, gravitational wave observatory. The laser interferometric...
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Black hole (redirect from Cosmic vacuum cleaners)
September 2015, the LIGO gravitational wave observatory made the first-ever successful direct observation of gravitational waves. The signal was consistent...
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Big Bang (section Cosmic acceleration)
with cosmic time, making precise measurements difficult. Future gravitational-wave observatories might be able to detect primordial gravitational waves, relics...
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first direct detections of gravitational waves, GW150914 and GW151226, mergers of stellar-mass black holes. Gravitational-wave astronomy is born. No deviations...
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The Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE /ˈkoʊbi/ KOH-bee), also referred to as Explorer 66, was a NASA satellite dedicated to cosmology, which operated from...
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Void (astronomy) (redirect from Cosmic nothingness)
located in voids. This is because most galaxies are gravitationally bound together, creating huge cosmic structures known as galaxy filaments. The cosmological...
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"Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves". Astrophysical Journal....
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thence the power (rate of energy emission) of the gravitational waves. Thus, such a gravitational wave source is a standard siren of known loudness. Just...
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Accelerating expansion of the universe (redirect from Cosmic acceleration)
The Las Cumbres Observatory Collaboration; The VINROUGE Collaboration; The MASTER Collaboration (2017-11-02). "A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement...
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allowed equations of state. Future gravitational wave signals with next generation detectors like Cosmic Explorer can impose further constraints. When...
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Virgo interferometer (category Interferometric gravitational-wave instruments)
two Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatories (LIGO) in the United States and the Japanese Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA), because...
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Expansion of the universe (redirect from Cosmic expansion)
tension. A third option proposed recently is to use information from gravitational wave events (especially those involving the merger of neutron stars, like...
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Gravity (redirect from Gravitational interaction)
physics, gravity (from Latin gravitas 'weight'), also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, a mutual attraction...
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