by Eleonora CAPOCASA (National Astronomical Observatory of Japan) Three 2nd generation gravitational-wave detectors (the two LIGO and Virgo) are about to come online again, in an upgraded version, for a new data-taking period. The increased sensitivity of the network is expected to result in a higher rate of detections with louder signals so as to enter a mature phase of […]
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The Insight probe, which arrived on Mars on November 26, 2018, takes its time to unfold its arms, and reveals to us the landscape that surrounds it. After a first shot sent the day after his impeccable landing, his panoramic camera took a shot of the landscape and the probe, with in the foreground one of his two fan-shaped solar […]
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The ninth international symposium on “Large TPCs for low-energy rare event detection” will be held in Paris on the 12th-14th of December 2018. The purpose of the meeting is an extensive discussion of present and future projects using a large TPC for low energy, low background detection of rare events (low-energy neutrinos, double beta decay, dark matter, solar axions). There […]
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On Saturday 1st December 2018, scientists attending the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop in College Park, Maryland, presented new results from searches for coalescing cosmic objects, such as pairs of black holes and pairs of neutron stars, by the LIGO and Virgo detectors. The LIGO and Virgo interferometers have now confidently detected gravitational waves from a total of 10 […]
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The APC wil welcome 3 colloquia this December, whose subjects are of great interest to UnivEarthS members and others! . Please find in the poster below all the necessary informations, locations and dates, speakers’ names, titles and abstracts. The first meeting is on (this coming) Thursday Dec 6, at 2pm in 454A (on gravitational waves!), followed by Friday Dec 7 […]
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