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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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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KAGRA (redirect from Large Scale Cryogenic Gravitational Wave Telescope)
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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Tests of general relativity (redirect from Gravitational deflection of light)
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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Interferometry (redirect from Interferometric)
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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Methods of detecting exoplanets (redirect from Extrasolar planet search device)
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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Dark matter (section Gravitational lensing)
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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Atom interferometer (section Gravitational physics)
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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List of space telescopes (section Gravitational waves)
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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