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Over 320 were submitted, all of which will eventually become public on the NRC website (yours truly contributed to four, having to do with coordinated gravitational-wave and electromagnetic observations, gamma-ray bursts, and rapid-cadence surveys.).
The next decade daniel 2009
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The concert will be preceded by public talks by Kip Thorne and Jay Marx, two of the most knowledgeable people alive when it comes to gravitational-wave theory and observation.
Einstein’s cosmic messengers daniel 2008
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For a ring of particles floating in space, a passing gravitational-wave will cause them to oscillate (image at right stolen from the Wikipedia entry).
The difficult childhood of gravitational waves daniel 2007
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Jao (Jose Antonio Ortega Ruiz) got a Ph.D. in gravitational-wave detectors, left the field, and has now been inspired to get back in.
Blogs! Sean 2006
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The NASA budget announced in February mows down a scarily long list of science missions, from a Europa orbiter to a space-based gravitational-wave observatory.
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The NASA budget announced in February mows down a scarily long list of science missions, from a Europa orbiter to a space-based gravitational-wave observatory.
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Astronomers get new tools for gravitational-wave detection
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He said that astronomers now have barely enough millisecond pulsars to make a convincing gravitational-wave detection.
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Einstein's theory of general relativity, appears to be years-and possibly decades-away, as the current generation of gravitational-wave detectors has so far failed to find any.
Scientific American 2010
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Einstein@Home participants will automatically receive work for both the radio and gravitational-wave searches.
SpaceRef Top Stories 2009
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