Investigations in Gravitational Radiation
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Strathclyde
Department Name: Physics
Abstract
See award number: ST/I001026/1
Publications
Abbott B
(2017)
Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts during the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run and Implications for the Origin of GRB 150906B
in The Astrophysical Journal
Abbott B
(2017)
Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the first observing run of Advanced LIGO
in Physical Review D
Blair C
(2017)
First Demonstration of Electrostatic Damping of Parametric Instability at Advanced LIGO.
in Physical review letters
Abbott B
(2017)
All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the first Advanced LIGO run
in Physical Review D
Walker M
(2017)
Effects of transients in LIGO suspensions on searches for gravitational waves.
in The Review of scientific instruments
Abbott BP
(2017)
GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2.
in Physical review letters
LIGO Scientific Collaboration And The Virgo Collaboration
(2017)
A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant.
in Nature
Abbott B
(2017)
GW170814: A Three-Detector Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Coalescence
in Physical Review Letters
Abbott B
(2017)
On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817
in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Abbott BP
(2017)
Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run.
in Physical review letters
| Description | Gravitational Waves have been discovered. |
| Exploitation Route | We hope that this may mark the start of world-wide gravitational wave astronomy. |
| Sectors | Construction |
| URL | http://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102 |
| Description | Three videos on the detection of Gravitational Waves were produced and distributed by the University of Strathclyde. They have proved very popular on social media. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2016 |
| Impact Types | Cultural Societal |
| Description | TSB CCS |
| Amount | £1,298,802 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2013 |
| End | 06/2016 |
| Description | Investigations in Gravitational Radiation |
| Organisation | University of Glasgow |
| Department | Institute for Gravitational Research |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | This collaboration allowed the development at Strathclyde of ultra-low noise Electroststic Drivers, and their subsequent construction and testing, for the Advanced LIGO project. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Assistance with making contacts with the US side of the LIGO project, specifically with collaborators at MIT and Caltech. |
| Impact | Eight ultra-low noise Elecrostatic Drivers have been delivered to the IGR. |
| Start Year | 2008 |
| Title | Violin-Mode sensor |
| Description | Differential picometre-level displacement detector, using a near-infrared illuminating beam and a differential photodiode-based shadow sensor. UV/Visible/IR detectors |
| Type Of Technology | Detection Devices |
| Year Produced | 2011 |
| Impact | In terms of displacement sensitivity this technology has improved on that of earlier 'shadow' sensors by a factor of circa 1000. |