PPT-Detecting Gravitational Waves

with a Pulsar T iming Array Lindley Lentati Cambridge University Gravitational Waves Fluctuations in curvature that propagate at the speed of light Experiment in the lab Using an accurate clock record when you measure ticks . Millisecond . Pulsars:. Dan Stinebring. Oberlin College. CWRU – May 21, 2009. . George Greenstein. (Amherst College). Discovery of “Millisecond” Pulsars. 1982 – Arecibo Observatory – Don Backer, Sri Kulkarni, .... The Child of General Relativity. A Necessary Change. Concepts after Einstein :-. Time is not absolute. There is no ether frame. Notion of . spacetime. Concepts before Einstein :-. There is a preferred reference frame ether. some history. (based on D. . Kennefick’s. work). Historical tidbits. 1776: Laplace suggests four mechanisms that could explain secular perturbations of Moon-Earth orbit. One the explanations was a non-instantaneous propagation of gravity, affecting the binary system (abandoned because its speed would be too large to be measurable to explain the effect). . Sources and detection . Ravi . kumar. . Kopparapu. Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics (CGWP) . Gravity. Einstein’s General theory of relativity :. Gravity is a manifestation of curvature of 4- dimensional (3 space + 1 time) space-time produced by matter (metric equation ? g. (& Gravitons ?). -. Vishal. . Kasliwal. Classical Electromagnetism. Vacuum. Maxwell Field Equations. Light!!. Electromagnetic waves. Quantum Electromagnetism. Hamiltonian of Quantized. Field. where. versus convective . blueshifts. , and wavelength variations across stellar disks. Dainis Dravins. – Lund . Observatory. , Sweden. www.astro.lu.se. /~. dainis. KVA. IAU Comm.30, IAU XXVIII GA Beijing, August 2012. Detecting Variation. In populations or when comparing closely related species, one major objective is to identify variation among the samples. AKA, one of the main goals in genomics is to identify what genomic features make individuals/populations/species different.  . Warren Schappert. TD/SRF.  . . Fermilab. Tuesday, September 22, 2015.  . 10:30 am .  . Curia II (WH2SW). Laser Vibrometry for ILC Cryomodules. In 2007 the TD/I&C department was tasked to measure vibrations of the quadrupole in the first ILC type cryomodule, CM1. Gravitational Waves: On the Brink of a New Astronomy. Tiffany Summerscales, Dept. of Physics. What are gravitational waves?. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity predicts that mass curves the fabric of . Ra Inta (Texas Tech University) . for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo . Collaboration. LIGO . Document . G1700692-v3. 1. A tour of some applied mathematical tools used within the LIGO and Virgo collaborations. NSF and the Laser Interferometer Gravitational - Wave Observatory In 1916 , Albert Einstein published the paper that predicted gravitational waves – ripples in the fabric of space - time resulti gravitational. . waves. by. Laser-plasma . interaction. . Hedvika . Kadlecová. . a. , . S. Weber . a. , G. Korn. a . a. . Institute of Physics, v.v.i. ASCR, Na Slovance 1999, Prague, Czech Republic;. Ravi . kumar. . Kopparapu. Center for Gravitational-Wave Physics (CGWP) . Gravity. Einstein’s General theory of relativity :. Gravity is a manifestation of curvature of 4- dimensional (3 space + 1 time) space-time produced by matter (metric equation ? g. Energy is moving, not water. orbital motion. energy is transferred via circular motions. water (and gull) return to original position. the wave form moves forward. Motion decreases with depth. At. a depth of ½ of the wavelength, the motion is not significant..