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  • Thumbnail for Gravitational-wave observatory
    A gravitational-wave detector (used in a gravitational-wave observatory) is any device designed to measure tiny distortions of spacetime called gravitational...
    36 KB (4,118 words) - 13:45, 27 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laser Interferometer Space Antenna
    dedicated space-based gravitational-wave observatory. It aims to measure gravitational waves directly by using laser interferometry. The LISA concept features...
    55 KB (5,036 words) - 05:06, 18 July 2024
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    the United States with the aim of detecting gravitational waves by laser interferometry. These observatories use mirrors spaced four kilometers apart to...
    89 KB (8,355 words) - 11:44, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Gravitational-wave astronomy
    by passing waves. Observatories like LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory), Virgo and KAGRA (Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector)...
    45 KB (4,835 words) - 14:35, 20 August 2024
  • related to Gravitational waves. Look up gravitational wave in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory. LIGO Laboratory...
    105 KB (12,587 words) - 01:39, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Interferometry
    The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) uses two 4-km Michelson–Fabry–Pérot interferometers for the detection of gravitational waves...
    97 KB (11,140 words) - 19:52, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for First observation of gravitational waves
    portal Gravitational-wave astronomy – Branch of astronomy using gravitational waves Gravitational-wave observatory – Device used to measure gravitational waves...
    70 KB (7,588 words) - 19:50, 14 September 2024
  • of the perihelion of Mercury, the bending of light in gravitational fields, and the gravitational redshift. The precession of Mercury was already known;...
    103 KB (12,444 words) - 11:21, 23 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Michelson interferometer
    which comprise the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory. This was the first experimental validation of gravitational waves, predicted by Albert...
    36 KB (4,357 words) - 17:10, 9 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sagnac effect
    topology while being insensitive to rotation. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) consisted of two 4-km Michelson–Fabry–Pérot...
    54 KB (7,089 words) - 08:30, 22 June 2024
  • wave-like nature of atoms in order to produce interference. In atom interferometers, the roles of matter and light are reversed compared to the laser...
    20 KB (1,961 words) - 17:57, 15 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
    department Laser Interferometry and Gravitational Wave Astronomy at AEI Hannover is on the development and operation of gravitational-wave detectors on...
    29 KB (2,864 words) - 09:57, 30 April 2024
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    LISA Pathfinder (category Gravitational-wave telescopes)
    tested technologies needed for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), an ESA gravitational wave observatory planned to be launched in 2035. The...
    20 KB (1,621 words) - 18:22, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Wald
    by astrophysicist Daniel Holz. The Laser Interferometry Gravitational-wave Observatory detected gravitational waves for the first time in 2015, one century...
    13 KB (1,212 words) - 14:22, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of gravitational physics and relativity
    Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem. 2002 – First data collection of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). 2002 – James Williams, Slava Turyshev, and...
    148 KB (14,745 words) - 04:02, 9 September 2024
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    GEO600 (category Interferometric gravitational-wave instruments)
    capable of detecting gravitational waves in the frequency range 50 Hz to 1.5 kHz, and is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. This...
    23 KB (2,810 words) - 11:52, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Parkes Observatory
    Mopra (near Coonabarabran), to form a very long baseline interferometry array. The observatory was included on the Australian National Heritage List on...
    40 KB (3,720 words) - 18:42, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Spectroscopy
    with a spectral signature in the context of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Spectroscopy is a branch of science concerned...
    42 KB (4,624 words) - 22:51, 11 August 2024
  • Big Bang Observer (category Interferometric gravitational-wave instruments)
    the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) by the European Space Agency. The primary scientific goal is the observation of gravitational waves from...
    3 KB (339 words) - 20:17, 20 December 2022
  • Thumbnail for List of space telescopes
    detects gravitational waves; ripples in space-time generated by colliding neutron stars or black holes. List of proposed space observatories List of heliophysics...
    129 KB (5,581 words) - 15:04, 9 September 2024
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