Category: News

Straight to the source: the LIGO-Virgo global network of interferometers opens a new era for gravitational wave science

E3: Geophysics and gravitational wave interferometric detectors, Exploratory Project, I10: From evolving binaries to the merging of compact objects, News

  A fourth gravitational-wave signal coming from the merger of two stellar mass black holes located about 1.8 billion light-years away was detected on the 14th of August 2017, at 10:30:43 UTC. GW170814 is the first event observed by the global 3-detector network, including not only the two twin Advanced LIGO detectors but the Advanced Virgo detector as well. Following […]

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2017 Science Festival

Education Project, News, Outreach, Spotlight!, UnivEarthS Activities

This year, UnivEarthS and its researchers are joining the Paris Diderot University to present their projects on the campus from 11 to 14 October 2017. With the theme “Science in All Times”, Labex members have redoubled their imagination to develop original animations. They will offer visitors from all walks of life, time to discover, explore, watch or listen to, and […]

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The Critical Design Review of IGOSat on Friday, September 29th

Education Project, For students, K2 Igosat, News, UnivEarthS Activities, Worskshop

The Critical Design Review (end of phase C) of IGOSat will occur on Friday, September 29th 2017 from 9:30am to 6pm, at laboratory APC, Luc Valentin meeting room (454A of Condorcet A Building, at 10 rue Alice Domon & Léonie Duquet, 75013 Paris). The review will be separated between an open session , aiming at firstly presenting the project and […]

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Einstein, Black Holes and Gravitational Waves – Public conference by Dr Barry Barish

E3: Geophysics and gravitational wave interferometric detectors, Exploratory Project, News, Outreach, UnivEarthS Activities

Barry Clark Barish, emeritus professor at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), became Principal Investigator of the Gravitational Wave Observatory by Laser Interferometry (LIGO) in 1994 and its director from 1997 for several years. He led the effort to approve funding for LIGO by NSF in 1994, the construction and commissioning of LIGO interferometers in Livingston, LA and Hanford, WA […]

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GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

E3: Geophysics and gravitational wave interferometric detectors, Exploratory Project, News, Non classé

The Advanced LIGO-Virgo collaboration would like to announce the third detection of gravitational waves, confirming the beginning of a new field of astronomy.  As with the first two detections, the gravitational waves detected on January 4th, 2017, were emitted by the coalescence of two black holes, with masses of 30 and 20 solar masses respectively, at a distance of three […]

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