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Manne
Siegbahn Memorial Lecture 2017:
“Searching for – and finding!
gravitational waves”
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Thursday, 20. Oct. 2016 |
Video-Recording for any system with MP4-support
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15:15 – 16:25 |
Speaker: Gabriela Gonzalez
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Abstract :
On September 14 2015, the two LIGO gravitational wave
detectors in
Washington and
time-frequency properties consistent with
gravitational-wave emission by the merger
of two massive compact objects. Further analysis of
the signals by the LIGO Scientific
Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration revealed
that the gravitational waves detected
by LIGO came from the merger of a binary black hole
(BBH) system.
This observation, followed by another one in December
2015, marked the beginning of
gravitational wave astronomy.
I will describe some details of the observation, the
status of LIGO and Virgo ground-based interferometric detectors, and prospects
for future observations.