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SUMMARY:Searching for – and finding!  gravitational waves - Gabriela Go
 nzalez\, Professor\, Physics and Astronomy\, Louisiana State University   
      
DTSTART:20161028T150000Z
DTEND:20161028T160000Z
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CONTACT:Leona Hope-Coles
DESCRIPTION:On September 14 2015\, the two LIGO gravitational wave detecto
 rs in Hanford\, Washington and Livingston\, Louisiana registered a nearly 
 simultaneous signal with time-frequency properties consistent with gravita
 tional-wave emission by the merger of two massive compact objects. Further
  analysis of the signals by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virg
 o Collaboration revealed that the gravitational waves detected by LIGO cam
 e from the merger of a binary black hole system. This observation\, follow
 ed by another one in December 2015\, marked the beginning of gravitational
  wave astronomy. I will describe some details of the observation\, the sta
 tus of LIGO and Virgo ground-based interferometric detectors\, and prospec
 ts for future observations. 
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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