Bulletin of the American Physical Society
81st Annual Meeting of the APS Southeastern Section
Volume 59, Number 18
Wednesday–Saturday, November 12–15, 2014; Columbia, South Carolina
Session EA: Precision Measurements at Low and Medium Energies II |
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Chair: Stefan Baessler, University of Virginia Room: Lexington |
Thursday, November 13, 2014 4:00PM - 4:36PM |
EA.00001: TBD Invited Speaker: Joshua Long |
Thursday, November 13, 2014 4:36PM - 5:12PM |
EA.00002: Status of Advanced LIGO detectors Invited Speaker: Keiko Kokeyama It has been almost 100 years since Einstein predicted gravitational waves as a consequence of his theory of general relativity. Gravitational waves are "ripples of space-time,'' where the space time changes like a fabric and its ripples propagate at the speed of light across the universe. There is strong evidence for their existence from observations of binary pulsar systems, however, the actual distortions of the space time have not been directly detect yet. Gravitational waves are produced by drastic astrophysical phenomena such as core-collapse supernova and collisions of neutron stars and black holes. Detecting and studying gravitational waves will give us new views of the universe. Advanced LIGO project started in 2010, aiming for the first detections and for starting the new gravitational-wave astrophysics. The detectors will be ready for the first science observation in the next year. In this talk, the current status and prospects for detections will be presented. [Preview Abstract] |
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