February 2017
Global robotic network for monitoring near-Earth and outer space
At the beginning of the 21st century it became obvious that using small-diameter (up to one metre) robotic telescopes in astronomy allowed for breakthroughs in observing non-stationary and short-lived events in the Universe. With the help of robotic...
19 April 2016
Gravitational waves poised to be pinpointed by gamma ray burst
... suggest just a 0.2 percent chance that these beams of intense radiation are a simple random coincidence with the GW150914 event. If it is established that the bursts originated from the same source as the gravitational waves, it would be a landmark...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
... Figure 5: The southern hemisphere where the signal originated from at the time of the event. The position of GW150914 is highlighted by the different colour contours: the highest probability starts in purple and decreases to yellow as the restricted...
11 July 2016
Short gamma-ray burst is from a binary neutron star coalescing into a black hole say researchers
...too long before a gamma-ray burst event, named GW150914-GBM, was identified in the same vicinity at around ...been able to considerably constrain the current location on the sky for GW150914, currently resolved to an area of 600 square degrees – a ...
21 March 2016
Using gravitational waves to search for Population III stars
... are easier to detect. After analysis of their models, the team find a ∼ 1% probability that the current detection GW150914 is of primordial origin, in addition their studies estimate that aLIGO will detect roughly 1 primordial black hole – black...
23 February 2016
Researchers probe black-hole mergers with fast-powered winds
... false alarm probability of 0.0022. Its localisation was reported as ill-constrained but consistent with the direction of GW150914 and does not appear connected with other previously known astrophysical, solar, terrestrial, or magnetospheric activity...
