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General Category => Astronomy & Science => Topic started by: Bla on February 11, 2016, 10:51:21 AM

Title: Observation of Gravitational Waves
Post by: Bla on February 11, 2016, 10:51:21 AM

Very interesting - a paper about the first observation of gravitational waves has been released confirming the rumors that they've been discovered. From a merger of two black holes.

http://ligo.org/science/Publication-GW150914/index.php

Title: Re: Observation of Gravitational Waves
Post by: codefantastic on February 16, 2016, 12:11:20 PM

ligo of my gravitational waves.
(get it?)

Title: Re: Observation of Gravitational Waves
Post by: vh on February 17, 2016, 07:59:18 PM

https://losc.ligo.org/s/events/GW150914/GW150914_tutorial.html

this tutorial walks you through downloading the ligo data and doing some signals processing and analysis on it.

it's really quite nice, and you go from looking at what seems to be random noise to locating the signal and being able to actually listen to it

Title: Re: Observation of Gravitational Waves
Post by: DiamondMiner10 on February 17, 2016, 10:05:16 PM

(http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/gravitational_waves.png)