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Generating and Distributing Prompt Alerts
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Catching Gravitational Waves - With Sheila Rowan
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- 1 Intro
- 2 Fundamentals
- 3 Gravity: the death of stars
- 4 Gravitational Waves' possible sources
- 5 THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SPECTRUM
- 6 Properties of the final black hole
- 7 Gravitational Waves : A Strain in Space
- 8 How can we detect them?
- 9 Michelson Interferometer
- 10 Addition of Light Waves (Interference)
- 11 Main limitations to sensitivity
- 12 LIGO Observatories
- 13 Initial LIGO detectors
- 14 Advanced GW Detector Network
- 15 Generating and Distributing Prompt Alerts
- 16 GW150914 Sky Location estimate
- 17 Prospects for next observing runs
- 18 Science questions to be answered
- 19 Sky localisation with 3 detector sites
- 20 LIGO Liftoff of Vega VV06 carrying LISA Pathfinder
- 21 The Network of Gravitational Wave Facilities
- 22 How much of the Universe is made of matter we understand
