SPY
HILL
Research
Poughkeepsie, New York
SPY
HILL
Research
Students learn about the physics of gravitational waves and how they are detected, and then use real data from a global network of gravitational wave observatories to perform their own personal research investigation.
Read about each student's investigation in their own words:
This LIGO research made use of both S5 and S6 data of LIGO to discuss the extent of the North American 60 Hz Power Main Disturbance.
This paper is about the study of gravitational waves with the data from LIGO's 5th science run (S5). It provides basic background information about gravitational waves, its source and the LIGO. It described the preliminary goal of research, the following process during the half of year and the final researching target. The methodology of how to recover the compact binary coalescence injections and how to create the plots is mentioned, as well as a brief analysis based on these resources. The reader is assumed to be familiar with basic physical knowledge, having interests in the cutting-edge area of physics, but not necessarily has any background information about LIGO or gravitational waves.