Physicists Unlock a New Way To Detect Tiny Fluctuations in Spacetime

A new theoretical framework shows how subtle fluctuations in spacetime could be detected using existing interferometers.
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Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory Detects Ripples in Spacetime

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Scientists building giant space lasers to unlock secrets of spacetime

Scientists are building giant space lasers to unlock the secrets of ripples in spacetime. The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will comprise a trio of spacecraft flying in a vast triangular ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Gravitational pull? NU astrophysicist to realize dream helping build space-based device to use gravity to ‘see giant black holes’

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Building on Success… Zygo's NEW Qualifire® Laser Interferometer

Common to optical metrology in many modern systems, the Fizeau design uses a fixed, on-axis coherent point source to illuminate the interferometric cavity. For the most part, it works very well. While ...
Ars Technica

LIGO goes to space: ESA to proceed with LISA gravitational wave detector

On Thursday, the European Space Agency’s Science Programme Committee gave the go-ahead to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA project. This would mean the construction of the mission’s ...
Phys.org

Paper explores ideal orbits for space-based interferometers

Artist Impression of LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna. Credit: NASA Ever since the telescope was invented in 1608, astronomers have striven for bigger and better telescopes. When it comes ...
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Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) Project gets Help from PI Hexapod Alignment Systems

6-axis nanopositioning system assembly provides the ultra high precision required to mount and align optical components to be launched into space, new from PI. Image Credit: PI (Physik Instrumente) LP ...
Gizmodo

Hell Yeah, We’re Getting a Space-Based Gravitational Wave Observatory

Stay calm, everybody stay calm. But it’s finally happening: The European Space Agency is committing itself to the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), a gravitational wave observatory that will ...
Scientific American

Space Lasers Will Seek a New Kind of Gravitational Waves

Orbital observatories such as the Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can see far back into the universe—so far, in fact, that they have revealed some of the earliest galaxies ...
Scientific American

First Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detector Gets Go-Ahead

The first experiment to measure gravitational waves from space has been given the green light by the European Space Agency (ESA). The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will use the precise ...