We're going to get a better detector: time for upgrades in the search for gravitational waves
- Written by Robert Ward, Associate Investigator, OzGrav (ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery), Research Fellow in Physics, Australian National University
An artist's depiction of a pair of neutron stars colliding.NASA/Swift/Dana Berry
It’s been a year since ripples in space-time from a colliding pair of dead stars tickled the gravitational wave detectors of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo facilities.
Soon after, astronomers around the world began a campaign to observe the afterglow of...