• Ground-based interferometric gravitational-wave search refers to the use of extremely large interferometers built on the ground to passively detect (or...
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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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    measure gravitational waves—tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime—from astronomical sources. LISA will be the first dedicated space-based gravitational-wave...
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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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    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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    matter and gravitational waves, and has other important instruments, including Super Kamiokande, XMASS and NEWAGE. KAGRA is a laser interferometric gravitational...
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  • INDIGO or IndIGO (Indian Initiative in Gravitational-wave Observations) is a consortium of Indian gravitational wave physicists. It is an initiative to set...
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  • Einstein Telescope (category Interferometric gravitational-wave instruments)
    Einstein Telescope (ET), is a proposed third-generation ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detector, currently under study by some institutions in the...
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    Virgo interferometer (category Interferometric gravitational-wave instruments)
    large-scale scientific instrument near Pisa, Italy, for detecting gravitational waves. The detector is a Michelson interferometer, which can detect the...
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  • of the perihelion of Mercury, the bending of light in gravitational fields, and the gravitational redshift. The precession of Mercury was already known;...
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    gravitational waves in data from ground-based interferometric detectors and from pulsar timing arrays, and on radio, gamma-ray and gravitational-wave...
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    Interferometric synthetic aperture radar, abbreviated InSAR (or deprecated IfSAR), is a radar technique used in geodesy and remote sensing. This geodetic...
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    focuses its activity on LISA and other space-based and ground-based gravitational-wave astronomy and on searches for fundamental interactions beyond the standard...
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    Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) uses two 4-km Michelson–Fabry–Pérot interferometers for the detection of gravitational waves. In this application...
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    characterized via eclipsing binary timing variations. Gravitational microlensing occurs when the gravitational field of a star acts like a lens, magnifying the...
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    observed. One of the consequences of general relativity is the gravitational lens. Gravitational lensing occurs when massive objects between a source of light...
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  • and the propagation of light, and include gravitational time dilation, gravitational lensing, the gravitational redshift of light, the Shapiro time delay...
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    Sources and Gravitational Collapse: Proceedings of the 1st Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Quasi-Stellar Sources and Gravitational Collapse...
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  • phase evolution of the emitted waves and in their polarization, a network of at least three interferometric gravitational wave detectors is necessary in order...
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  • compared to the laser based interferometers, i.e. the beam splitter and mirrors are lasers while the source emits matter waves (the atoms) rather than...
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    those can be detected by ground-based detectors via their particle showers. A type of telescope that detects gravitational waves; ripples in space-time...
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    telescope is a specialized antenna and radio receiver used to detect radio waves from astronomical radio sources in the sky. Radio telescopes are the main...
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  • (software) Astrophysics Multi-spectral Archive Search Engine AMBER – (telescope) a near-infrared interferometric instrument at VLTI AMS – (organization) American...
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    Mercury (planet) (category Pages using Sister project links with default search)
    2012. Retrieved May 30, 2008. Golden, Leslie M. (1977). A Microwave Interferometric Study of the Subsurface of the Planet Mercury (Thesis). University...
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    European Southern Observatory (category International scientific organizations based in Europe)
    intergovernmental research organisation made up of 16 member states for ground-based astronomy. Created in 1962, ESO has provided astronomers with state-of-the-art...
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    Other types of active collection includes plasmas in the ionosphere. Interferometric synthetic aperture radar is used to produce precise digital elevation...
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    Allen Telescope Array (category Interferometric telescopes)
    in star formation and galaxy formation and evolution. Detect the gravitational wave background from massive black holes through pulsar timing. Measure...
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    Very Large Array (category Interferometric telescopes)
    combined with four 18 meter antennae. Located in New Mexico. Main Interferometric Array: 214 x 18 meter antennae, reaching a baseline of about 1000 km...
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  • the field of gravitational-wave astronomy through the detection of gravitational waves predicted by general relativity. Gravitational waves were detected...
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    needed] In April 2023, a team developed a new principal-component interferometric modeling (PRIMO) technique to produce sharper image reconstructions...
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