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A quick discussion of relativity: contents
- Background and special relativity
- Overview of general relativity
- Gravitational waves
- LIGO
- Black holes
- Gamma ray bursts
Diary of my first visit to LIGO-Livingston (with pictures):
- report #1 (5-6 July 2001)
- report #2 (11 July 2001)
- report #3 (13 July 2001)
- report #4 (16 July 2001)
- report #5 (17 July 2001)
- report #6 (20 July 2001)
- report #7 (25 July 2001)
- report #8 (27 July 2001)
Diary of my second visit to LIGO-Livingston (with pictures):
- report #0 (6 July 2002)
- report #1 (10 July 2002)
- report #2 (16 July 2002)
- report #3 (24 July 2002)
- report #4 (3 August 2002)
Gravity gradient noise from ground waves (project presentation at LIGO, 31 July 2002)
LIGO Hanford site (photos including a panoramic view)
Information for students visiting LIGO
Gravitational-wave related images
Calculations on space-time curvature within the Earth and Sun (.pdf)
Detection strategies for a multi-interferometer triggered burst search
Links
- University of Texas at Brownsville Relativity Group
- introductory discussion of gravitational wave detection by Dr. Warren Anderson (UTB)
- LIGO home page
- LIGO Livingston Observatory
- introductory discussion of LIGO
- 2001 SURF lectures (SURF=Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship)
- LIGO Hanford Observatory
- Relativity on the Web
- List of gravitational wave detectors (on this site--includes links)
Banner image: Representation of a neutron star binary system (credit: Wm. Robert Johnston).
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