LIGO and the detection of gravitational waves.
Abstract
Large detectors on opposite sides of the country are about to start monitoring the cosmos for the gravitational waves that general relativity tells us should be emanating from catastrophic astrophysical events.
- Publication:
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Physics Today
- Pub Date:
- October 1999
- DOI:
- 10.1063/1.882861
- Bibcode:
- 1999PhT....52j..44B
- Keywords:
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- Gravity Waves: Detectors