PPT-Gravitational Waves and LIGO

httpswwwligocaltechedusystemvideoitemsfiles4EinsteinsMessengerLIGOmp41436490806 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics Rainer Weiss Barry C Barish Kip S Thorne for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. 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, .... for the 1. st. Advanced LIGO Science Run. Jordan Camp. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. Moriond. Gravitation Meeting. March 25, 2015. Search Team. Lindy Blackburn (. CfA. ). Nelson Christensen (Carleton College). 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. An Indo-US joint mega-project concept proposal. . IndIGO Consortium. (. Ind. ian . I. nitiative in . G. ravitational-wave . O. bservations). Tarun . Souradeep. IUCAA . (. Spokesperson, IndIGO). Detecting Einstein’s Elusive Waves. Opening a New Window to the Universe. An Indo-US joint mega-project concept proposal. . IndIGO. Consortium. (. Ind. ian . I. nitiative in . G. ravitational-wave . The Search for Gravitational Waves with Advanced LIGO. Tiffany Summerscales, . Andrews University Dept. . of Physics. What are gravitational waves?. Einstein’s theory of General Relativity predicts that mass curves the fabric of . -12 . cm. A world-shaking discovery. James Clerk Maxwell. Professor at King’s College. London: 1860 – 1865. Unified theory of electricity and . . magnetism. Predicted electromagnetic waves. Identified light as due to these waves. . May 21, 2010. 13. th. . Eastern Gravity Meeting. 13th Eastern Gravity Meeting - G1000500. LIGO - G1000500. Pulsar. Supernova. Merging Black . Holes. Supernovae. Asymmetry required. Coalescing Binaries. Cominsky. Sonoma State University. Proposing a new CPEP section. Gravitation. Inspired by ongoing NSF-funded work on behalf of LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory). First product would be a new poster highlighting LIGO and the (hopefully soon) discovery of gravitational waves. 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 1ABriefHistoryofLIGOOnehundredyearsagousinghisrecentlygeneralrelativitytheoryAlbertEinsteinpredictedtheexistenceofgravitationalwavesanddescribedtheirpropertiesToEinsteinthesewavesseemedtooweakevertobe UsingdatatakenbetweenNovember2005and2007theLaserInterferometerGravitational-waveObservatoryLIGOScientificCollaborationandtheVirgoCollaborationhaveplacedupperlimitsontheamplitudeofthestochasticgravitat within 10 milliseconds of one another 150 that indicates a gravitational wave And from that minute change scientists are further able to identify the wave146s source and very broadly where in the univ 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.