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English: First observation of gravitational waves by LIGO (signal GW150914). Shows the gravitational wave signals received by the LIGO instruments at Hanford, Washington (left) and Livingston, Louisiana (right) and comparisons of these signals to the signals expected due to a black hole merger event. |
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| Source | http://physics.aps.org/featured-article-pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102 . See also the associated Jupyter notebook. | ||||||
| Author | B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) — full list at the end of the article | ||||||
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| SVG development |  This W3C-invalid diagram was created with Adobe Illustrator.  This diagram is translated using SVG switch elements: all translations are stored in the same file.
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| current | 18:07, 23 March 2016 | | 499 × 422 (1.03 MB) | wikimediacommons>Rothwild | Added correct english translation » frequency |
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