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SUMMARY:Searching for – and finding!  gravitational waves
DTSTART:20161020T131500Z
DTEND:20161020T140000Z
DTSTAMP:20260313T164800Z
UID:indico-event-5940@indico.fysik.su.se
DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Gabriela Gonzalez (Louisiana State University\, for 
 the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration)\n\nOn Septe
 mber 14 2015\, the two LIGO gravitational wave detectors in Hanford\, Wash
 ington and Livingston\, Louisiana registered a nearly simultaneous signal 
 with time-frequency properties consistent with gravitational-wave emission
  by the merger of two massive compact objects. Further analysis of the sig
 nals by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration reve
 aled 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 astronom
 y. I will describe some details of the observation\, the status of LIGO an
 d Virgo ground-based interferometric detectors\, and prospects for future 
 observations.\n\nhttps://indico.fysik.su.se/event/5940/
LOCATION:FR4
URL:https://indico.fysik.su.se/event/5940/
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