Aiming for the sky and beyond: WVU helps net $2 million NSF award to build international gravitational wave detection network

9/21/2021

The hunt for more evidence of gravitational waves – ripples in spacetime formed by cataclysmic events in the distant universe – will be accelerated with a nearly $2 million National Science Foundation grant awarded to a West Virginia University scientist and her colleagues.

Eberly Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy Maura McLaughlin will serve as principal investigator on the project, which will bolster a global network of researchers and telescopes called the International Pulsar Timing Array. The coalition’s goal is to discover low-frequency gravitational waves – a different sort from what’s already been identified - using high-precision timing observations of exotic stars called millisecond pulsars with the world’s largest radio telescopes.

https://wvutoday.wvu.edu/stories/2021/09/13/aiming-for-the-sky-and-beyond-wvu-helps-net-2-million-nsf-award-to-build-international-gravitational-wave-detection-network

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