Refining the search for the largest gravitational waves

A. Miguel Holgado's research focuses on the gravitational wave signatures of compact objects such as black holes, neutron stars, and white dwarfs.

Gravitational-Wave Scientists' Brilliant New Method To Refine the ...

Gravitational waves are generated in the most violent cosmic events and provide a new channel of information about the Universe. They're emitted ...

Refining the Search for Sub-threshold Lensed Gravitational Waves ...

Efforts to detect strongly lensed gravitational waves using data from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo include searching for sub-threshold lensed images, which ...

Searches for Gravitational Waves from Binary Neutron Stars: A Review

Among the most promising sources of gravitational waves for these observatories are compact binaries in the final min- utes before coalescence. In this article, ...

Searching for gravitational waves from stellar-mass binary black ...

The early inspiral from stellar-mass binary black holes can emit milli-Hertz gravitational wave signals, making them detectable sources for ...

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017 - Popular Science Background

But spacetime is rigid and not easy to shake up, so only the most violent cosmic processes can cause gravitational waves large enough to measure. Yet their ...

Semicoherent method to search for continuous gravitational waves

... refined step in which the residual variations are removed. This method can be efficiently applied for directed searches, where the source ...

2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to LIGO Founders

On September 14, 2015, the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO made the first-ever direct observation of gravitational waves—ripples in the fabric of ...

Looking ahead to the LISA gravitational-wave detector

By probing the cosmos with gravitational waves, astronomers are gaining an entirely new dimension to our picture of the universe that helps to ...

Gravitational Waves and the Effort to Detect them | American Scientist

A worldwide network of detectors may soon measure subtle ripples in spacetime itself, ushering in a new era of astrophysical research.

RIT scientists reach a milestone in the search for continuous ...

Researchers from the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration outlined the most sensitive search to date for continuous gravitational waves from a promising source.

After 15 years, pulsar timing yields evidence of cosmic gravitational ...

“This is key evidence for gravitational waves at very low frequencies,” says Vanderbilt University's Stephen Taylor, who co-led the search and ...

How would gravitational waves be experienced at a closer distance ...

When a gravitational wave gets emitted, its energy spreads out proportional to the distance squared. But the amplitude of a gravitational wave — ...

What is the largest known source of gravitational waves? How far ...

Passing gravity waves are exceedingly weak. A passing gravity wave might modify the length of the test arm by one part in 10 ...

Gravitational Waves Detected by LIGO: Complete Coverage | Space

In one of the biggest discoveries in the history of space science, researchers have directly detected gravitational waves, the ripples in space- ...

LIGO and the detection of gravitational waves - collectSPACE.com

This confirms a major prediction of Albert Einstein's 1915 general theory of relativity and opens an unprecedented new window to the cosmos.

How the First Gravitational Waves Were Found | The New Yorker

After decades of speculation and searching, a signal came through. It promises to change our understanding of the universe.

GW170817 Press Release | LIGO Lab | Caltech

LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars. Discovery marks first cosmic event observed in both ...

We've Found Gravitational Waves. What Will We Learn From Them?

The first confirmed sighting of gravitational waves — distortions of space-time, literally ripples in the fabric of the universe — was a ...

LIGO: Detecting gravitational waves uncovers the Universe's mysteries

Finding a gravitational wave, because of the nature of the amplitude and because the interferometers themselves produce a lot of noise, is very ...