Gravitational Waves and Observational Astrophysics

Syracuse University has an active research group engaged in opening this exciting new field of physics and astronomy.

Gravitational Waves | Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian

Instead, it measures gravitational waves: tiny ripples in the structure of spacetime created by colliding black holes, neutron stars, or other powerful cosmic ...

Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s

This Roadmap of future developments surveys the potential for growth in bandwidth and sensitivity of future gravitational-wave detectors.

What are Gravitational Waves? | LIGO Lab | Caltech

Gravitational waves are 'ripples' in space-time caused by some of the most violent and energetic processes in the Universe.

Gravitational-wave astronomy - Wikipedia

Gravitational-wave astronomy ... Gravitational-wave astronomy is a subfield of astronomy concerned with the detection and study of gravitational waves emitted by ...

Observing and Interpreting Gravitational Waves

Observing the signature of compact binary mergers buried within the data taken from large-scale gravitational-wave observatories is not a trivial task. The ...

Observational Astrophysics - gravitationalwaves - Syracuse University

The Syracuse University Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics is on the cutting edge of Observational Astrophysics!

Gravitational Wave Astrophysics and Observations

The direct observation of gravitational waves opens radically new opportunities for the study of compact objects – neutron stars and black holes.

Astrophysics, Gravitational Wave Physics and Cosmology

Gravity, of course, plays a dominant role in the formation and current state of the universe and, and the observation of gravitational waves by LIGO in 2015 ...

Observing across the gravitational wave spectrum - Astrobites

The theory predicts that when massive objects, like black holes (BHs) accelerate, they perturb the spacetime and produce gravitational waves, ...

Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory - NASA

Research encompasses a variety of areas, including numerical relativity, gravitational-wave sources and data analysis, mission formulation, theoretical modeling ...

Astrophysics - The Princeton Gravity Initiative

Mergers of Compact Objects are a core activity. The detection of gravitational waves from merging black holes by LIGO, and the multi-messenger observation ...

Gravitational Waves | Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge

Gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy is an emerging branch of observational astronomy which aims to use gravitational waves to collect observational data about ...

What Are Gravitational Waves And How They Helped Us Discover ...

Since this discovery, the field of gravitational-wave astronomy has exploded. The last full observing run of gravitational-wave detectors ...

Mathematical and Computational Challenges in the Era of ...

The field of Relativistic Astrophysics has recently witnessed a major revolution with the historical Nobel-Prize-winning observation of Gravitational Waves ...

Gravitational astrophysics | Astronomy & Geophysics

Although we will concentrate on the astrophysics, none of this can be possible without the current and next generation of gravitational wave observatories. The ...

Gravitational Waves & Multi-Messenger Astronomy

In CIERA, we have broad expertise and interest in multi-messenger astronomy, particularly at the interface of electromagnetic and gravitational-wave ...

Using electromagnetic observations to aid gravitational-wave ...

We present a first-stage study of the effect of using knowledge from electromagnetic (EM) observations in the gravitational wave (GW) data analysis of Galactic ...

Gravitational Wave Astronomy - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

Gravitational wave science should transform in this decade from a study of what has not been seen to a full-fledged field of astronomy.

Five new ways to catch gravitational waves — and the secrets they'll ...

Observations of a collection or array of pulsars — called a pulsar timing array (PTA) — should be able to detect changes induced by ...