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Syracuse University Gravitational Wave Group

Our group is a member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and is actively involved with the search for gravitational waves using data from the LIGO, GEO600, and Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. We also pursue research into gravitational-wave phenomenology and source modeling, in collaboration with our colleagues in numerical relativity.

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artist rendition of a Neutron Star collision

AP story on LIGO’s recent detection from neutron stars features interview with Duncan Brown

October 16, 2017

Professor Duncan Brown was interviewed by the Associated Press for a story on LIGO’s historic discovery of gravitational waves from the collision of binary neutron stars. Measurements of the light and other energy emanating from the event have helped scientists explain how planet-killing gamma ray bursts are born, how fast the universe is expanding, and where…

SU Professor Duncan Brown quoted in LA Times

October 16, 2017

In an article in the LA Times, Professor Duncan Brown discussed the future of multi-messenger astronomy following the recent announcement of the confirmed observation of a neutron star collision by the LIGO-Virgo network and more traditional telescopes. “This is the beginning,” said Brown. “This is the beginning of bringing the entire human toolkit of observations, of…

Peter Saulson reflects on the discovery of gravitational waves from binary neutron stars – SUNews

October 16, 2017

In a recent feature for SUNews, Peter Saulson, Martin A. Pomerantz ’37 Professor of Physics, discussed the importance of GW170817 in cementing gravitational waves as a new tool for exploring the universe. “Whether we’re contributing observations of something that only gravitational wave detectors can see, or offering new understandings of phenomena that have puzzled astronomers…

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