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    The first direct observation of gravitational waves was made on 14 September 2015 and was announced by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations on 11 February...
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    Gravitational-wave astronomy is a subfield of astronomy concerned with the detection and study of gravitational waves emitted by astrophysical sources...
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  • Gravitational waves are waves of the intensity of gravity that are generated by the accelerated masses of binary stars and other motions of gravitating...
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    sources, thus forming the primary tool of gravitational-wave astronomy. The first direct observation of gravitational waves was made in September 2015 by the...
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    Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a large-scale physics experiment and observatory designed to detect cosmic gravitational waves and to...
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    The gravitational wave background (also GWB and stochastic background) is a random background of gravitational waves permeating the Universe, which is...
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    contains a list of observed/candidate gravitational wave events. Direct observation of gravitational waves, which commenced with the detection of an event by...
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    Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA) is a large interferometer designed to detect gravitational waves predicted by the general theory of relativity...
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    wearing a swim cap with the signal of two merging black holes to celebrate the first observation of gravitational waves that had been announced two months...
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  • Ground-based interferometric gravitational-wave search refers to methods and devices used to search and detect gravitational waves based on interferometers...
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