…went online in 1957, Pettengill used the new technology to detect and track Sputnik 1, making the first radar observations of an Earth satellite without the aid of a transmitted…

…Planck Society), the U.K. (Science and Technology Facilities Council) and Australia (Australian Research Council-OzGrav) making significant commitments and contributions to the project. Approximately 1,300 scientists from around the world participate…

…Australia, in 2019. My main research area is in cosmological simulations using numerical relativity, though I am also dipping my toes into cosmological data analysis and gravitational waves. Email: hayleyjmacpherson@gmail.com…

…Planck Society), the U.K. (Science and Technology Facilities Council) and Australia (Australian Research Council-OzGrav) making significant commitments and contributions to the project. Approximately 1,300 scientists from around the world participate…

…gravitational-wave signals. By employing a technique called “squeezing,” initially developed for gravitational-wave detectors at the Australian National University, and matured and routinely used since 2010 at the GEO600 detector, researchers…

…Graduate Research Fellowship Fulbright Postgraduate Research Scholar in Australia LIGO Strong Gravity & Gravitational Radiation, Supernovae, Neutron Stars & Black Holes High Energy Astrophysics 10863 primary sbisco@mit.edu personal website http://web.mit.edu/sbisco/www/index.html…

…after undergoing upgrades that doubled its sensitivity. With both LIGO and Virgo back online, scientists anticipate that detections of gravitational waves from the farthest reaches of the universe may be…

…after undergoing upgrades that doubled its sensitivity. With both LIGO and Virgo back online, scientists anticipate that detections of gravitational waves from the farthest reaches of the universe may be…

…Louisiana, and the Virgo detector in Italy. Having only two detectors online did not affect our confidence of it being real, since neutron star binaries spend more than one minute…

…come online, the new method could be applied to dig up hidden signals of the universe’s first gravitational waves. The pattern and properties of these primordial waves could then reveal…