Category
page 1Gravitational-wave astronomy
Livingston
parish seat of Livingston Parish, Louisiana
GW150914
gravitational wave event
Hanford Site
decommissioned nuclear production complex in Washington, United States
gravitational-wave astronomy
type of astronomy involving observation of gravitational waves
gravitational-wave detector
device used to measure gravitational waves
Gravitational wave background
random gravitational-wave signal potentially detectable by gravitational wave experiments
matched filter
form of filter
Extreme mass ratio inspiral
LIGO Scientific Collaboration
organization
Q66210547
double binary white dwarf star
pulsar timing array
set of pulsars which is analyzed to search for correlated signatures in the pulse arrival times
Chirp mass
effective mass of a binary system, determining the evolution of gravitational waves