…world, to a mountaintop observatory just outside Canberra, Australia. She spent the next five months volunteering at the Australian National University Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, where astronomers had…

…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…

1 VizieR Online Data Catalog Achterberg, A. and Ackermann, M. and Adams, J. and Ahrens, J. and Atlee, D.W. and Bahcall, J.N. and Bair, X. and Baret, B. and Bartelt,…

…with Germany (Max 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…

…with Germany (Max 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…

…Melbourne, 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:…

…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…

…be found at http://public.virgo-gw.eu/the-virgo-collaboration/. More information is available on the Virgo website at http://www.virgo-gw.eu. MEDIA CONTACTS: Caltech Whitney Clavin wclavin@caltech.edu 626-390-9601 MIT Abby Abazorius abbya@mit.edu 617-253-2709…

…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…

…Baton Rouge, 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…