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Target Information |
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| IDENTIFIER | urn:nasa:pds:context:target:astrophysical.gravitational_waves::1.0 |
| NAME |
GRAVITATIONAL WAVES |
| TYPE |
ASTROPHYSICAL |
| DESCRIPTION |
Gravitational waves are perturbations of space-time caused by the creation or
destruction of mass. Although detected using the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave
Observatory (LIGO), they had not been observed using radiometric techniques as of 2019.
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| REFERENCES |
Barisch, B. C. (2000).
The Science and Detection of Gravitational Waves,
https://labcit.ligo.caltech.edu/~BCBAct/talks00/Alberta/LakeLouisepaper.PDF The LIGO Scientific Collaboration; the Virgo Collaboration (2019). "GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs". Physical Review X. 9 (3): 031040. arXiv:1811.12907. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.9.031040 |
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