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X-WR-CALNAME: IAC Talks: Open Astronomy Seminars
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CREATED:2010-03-15T00:00:00+00:00
X-WR-CALDESC: IAC Talks upcomming talks
SUMMARY:Gravitational waves: a new window onto the Universe
DESCRIPTION:Gravitational waves: a new window onto the Universe\nProf. Kip 
 S. Thorne\n\nOver the next decade or so, the gravitational-wave window ont
 o the Universe will be opened in four frequency bands that span 22 orders 
 of magnitude: The high-frequency band, 10 to 10,000 Hz (ground-based inter
 ferometers such as LIGO and VIRGO), the low-frequency band,  10-5 to 0.1 H
 z (the space-based interferometer LISA), the very-low frequency band, 10-9
  to 10-7 Hz (pulsar timing arrays), and the extremely-low-frequency band, 
 10-18 to 10-16 Hz (polarization of the cosmic microwave background). This 
 lecture will describe these four bands, the detectors that are being devel
 oped to explore them, and what we are likely to learn about black holes, n
 eutron stars, white dwarfs and early-universe exotica from these detectors
 ' observations.
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