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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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  • 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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    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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    "Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves". Astrophysical Journal....
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    fluctuations, gravitational radiation involves fluctuations of the relatively weaker gravitational field. The existence of gravitational waves was first suggested...
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    contains a list of observed and candidate gravitational wave events. Direct observation of gravitational waves, which commenced with the detection of an...
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    the gravitational-wave background. These examples highlight the critical role that the Hellings-Downs curve plays in contemporary gravitational wave research...
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    Data Set and the Gravitational Wave Background". "After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational wave background". 2022. Sazhin,...
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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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    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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  • Cosmic background may refer to: Cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) Cosmic neutrino background (CνB) Cosmic gravitational wave background (GWB)...
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  • context, gravity wave refers to a classical fluid wave, and is completely unrelated to the relativistic gravitational wave. Magnetogravity waves are found in...
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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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    The first direct observation of gravitational waves was made on 14 September 2015 and was announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February...
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  • second after the Big Bang Cosmic gravitational wave background, the component of the gravitational wave background originating directly from cosmic inflation...
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  • Pulsar timing array (category Gravitational-wave astronomy)
    (i.e., low-frequency) gravitational wave background. Such a detection would entail a detailed measurement of a gravitational wave (GW) signature, like...
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  • gravitational wave 'background' | Yale News". news.yale.edu. Retrieved 2025-01-23. Rini, Matteo (2023-06-29). "Researchers Capture Gravitational-Wave...
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    may be a first order transition suggested it could source a gravitational wave background and a baryogenesis, provided the Sakharov conditions are satisfied...
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  • 43rd president of the United States Gravitational wave background -- stochastic background of gravitational waves permeating the Universe Great Western...
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  • arrays as a means to detect gravitational waves, an idea that led to the discovery of a stochastic gravitational wave background in 2023. Detweiler was born...
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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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    theory – Theory in physical cosmology Gravitational wave background – Random background of gravitational waves permeating the Universe Heat death of the...
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    "Quantum principle of sensing gravitational waves: From the zero-point fluctuations to the cosmological stochastic background of spacetime". Physical Review...
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    Sun's gravitational field. 1969 – William B. Bonnor introduces the Bonnor beam. 1969 – Joseph Weber reports observation of gravitational waves a claim...
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    the cosmic microwave background. The first BICEP instrument (known during development as the "Robinson gravitational wave background telescope" and later...
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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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  • DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (or DECIGO) is a proposed Japanese, space-based, gravitational wave observatory. The laser interferometric...
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    Glitch Studies". "Pulsar timing irregularities reveals hidden gravitational-wave background". Physics World. 2023-06-29. Retrieved 2023-07-11. Antonelli...
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  • of a black hole 2023 – Experimental evidence of stochastic gravitational wave background 2023 – First "image" of the Milky Way in neutrinos instead of...
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  • location Background (astronomy), small amounts of light coming from otherwise dark parts of the sky Cosmic background (disambiguation) Gravitational wave background...
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