The Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics (CGWAA) is a research center at Syracuse University. Research at the CGWAA includes the study...
5 KB (356 words) - 14:30, 22 March 2024
Gravitational-wave astronomy is a subfield of astronomy concerned with the detection and study of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources...
45 KB (4,834 words) - 18:39, 25 September 2024
sensitivity to detect gravitational waves from astronomical sources, thus forming the primary tool of gravitational-wave astronomy. The first direct observation...
36 KB (4,119 words) - 07:28, 16 September 2024
The Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy (CGWA) is a research center at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Its core mission is "to...
2 KB (159 words) - 07:59, 22 November 2023
The gravitational wave background (also GWB and stochastic background) is a random background of gravitational waves permeating the Universe, which is...
19 KB (1,943 words) - 11:47, 2 September 2024
Gravitational waves therefore stand as an important relativistic phenomenon that is absent from Newtonian physics. In gravitational-wave astronomy, observations...
106 KB (12,661 words) - 04:41, 2 October 2024
~ 4×10−19. Astronomy portal Physics portal Gravitational-wave astronomy – Branch of astronomy using gravitational waves Gravitational-wave observatory –...
70 KB (7,598 words) - 19:08, 25 September 2024
(astro)physics and the study of gravitational waves. Some widely accepted and studied theories and models in astrophysics, now included in the Lambda-CDM...
30 KB (3,300 words) - 04:21, 18 September 2024
hole. A second gravitational wave was detected on 26 December 2015 and additional observations should continue but gravitational waves require extremely...
98 KB (10,186 words) - 18:32, 1 September 2024
gravitational-wave search refers to the use of extremely large interferometers built on the ground to passively detect (or "observe") gravitational wave...
85 KB (9,854 words) - 21:54, 30 September 2024
in astronomy, astrophysics and physics. IUCAA has active research groups in fields like classical and quantum gravity, cosmology, gravitational waves, optical...
11 KB (999 words) - 19:13, 30 September 2024
including gravitational waves, gravitational lensing and black holes. Solar physics – Sun and its interaction with the remainder of the Solar System and interstellar...
43 KB (3,397 words) - 22:38, 4 October 2024
Space Antenna (LISA) is a planned space probe to detect and accurately measure gravitational waves—tiny ripples in the fabric of spacetime—from astronomical...
57 KB (5,191 words) - 05:49, 22 September 2024
Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy. 20 (3–4): 233–248. doi:10.1007/BF02702355. ISSN 0250-6335. Singh, T. P. (December 1999). "Gravitational collapse...
24 KB (3,002 words) - 12:15, 25 September 2024
LIGO (redirect from Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory)
Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to develop...
89 KB (8,355 words) - 18:46, 25 September 2024
Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) is a consortium of astronomers who share a common goal of detecting gravitational waves via regular observations...
11 KB (1,217 words) - 20:43, 10 September 2024
direct detections of gravitational waves, GW150914 and GW151226, mergers of stellar-mass black holes. Gravitational-wave astronomy is born. No deviations...
148 KB (14,745 words) - 04:02, 9 September 2024
to study the effects of General Relativity such as gravitational lensing and gravitational waves, that are otherwise impossible (or nearly impossible)...
6 KB (577 words) - 08:03, 24 February 2024
Gravity (redirect from Gravitation (astronomy))
physics. Gravitation, also known as gravitational attraction, is the mutual attraction between all masses in the universe. Gravity is the gravitational attraction...
74 KB (7,488 words) - 00:33, 27 August 2024
known as gravitational lensing, can make background objects appear to an observer to take on a ring or arc shape. gravitational-wave astronomy A branch...
161 KB (18,470 words) - 01:41, 15 September 2024
the detection of an event by LIGO in 2015, plays a key role in gravitational wave astronomy. LIGO has been involved in all subsequent detections to date...
215 KB (6,095 words) - 02:14, 6 October 2024
Kip Thorne (category Gravitational-wave astronomy)
theoretical physicist and writer known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics. Along with Rainer Weiss and Barry C. Barish, he...
41 KB (3,962 words) - 20:47, 1 October 2024
Milky Way (redirect from Milky Way (astronomy))
geometric distance measurement to the Galactic center black hole with 0.3% uncertainty". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 625: L10. arXiv:1904.05721. Bibcode:2019A&A...
216 KB (21,677 words) - 21:00, 28 September 2024
Introduction to general relativity (redirect from Einstein's theory of gravitation)
Mercury and other planets. General relativity also predicts novel effects of gravity, such as gravitational waves, gravitational lensing and an effect...
72 KB (9,132 words) - 16:44, 27 September 2024
gravitational lensing. "HST images of strong gravitational lenses". Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "A planetary microlensing event" and...
51 KB (5,719 words) - 22:20, 21 September 2024
Taiji program (redirect from Taiji (gravitational wave observatory))
satellite-based gravitational-wave observatory. It is scheduled for launch in 2033 to study ripples in spacetime caused by gravitational waves. The program...
15 KB (1,837 words) - 07:34, 28 June 2024
Syracuse University (redirect from Lender Center for Social Justice)
observation of gravitational waves in 2015. The Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Astrophysics researches gravitational waves astronomy, designing...
187 KB (15,849 words) - 13:44, 6 October 2024
Dark matter (category Dark concepts in astrophysics)
Refregier, A. (2003). "Weak gravitational lensing by large-scale structure". Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 41 (1): 645–668. arXiv:astro-ph/0307212...
135 KB (14,696 words) - 12:32, 5 October 2024
relativity and beyond: Mathematics, quantum gravity, astrophysical relativity, and gravitational-wave astronomy. The institute was founded in 1995 and is located...
29 KB (2,864 words) - 09:57, 30 April 2024
Tests of general relativity (redirect from Gravitational deflection of light)
and in rotation, can emit gravitational waves. These gravitational waves are predicted to travel at the speed of light. For example, planets orbiting...
103 KB (12,444 words) - 00:19, 24 September 2024