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  • c_cld by c_cld

    Announcement
    Media Advisory: Press Conference at ESO HQ Announcing Unprecedented Discovery

    ESO will hold a press conference on 16 October 2017 at 16:00 CEST, at its Headquarters in Garching, Germany, to present groundbreaking observations of an astronomical phenomenon that has never been witnessed before.
    The event will be introduced from ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile by the Director General, Xavier Barcons, and will feature talks by representatives of many research groups around Europe.

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  • c_cld by c_cld

    Searching for the optical electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational wave events:
    http://archive.eso.org/wdb/wdb/eso/sched_rep_arc/query?progid=099.D-0191(B) ESO Observation Schedule

    Target ra, dec

    | 03   04   55.61˙ | -43   24   38.7 |
    | 03   04   55.66˙ | -43   24   38.2 |
    | 03   04   57.77˙ | -43   23   13.2 |
    | 03   05   00.92˙ | -42   23   18.0 |
    | 03   05   00.96˙ | -42   23   17.5 |
    | 03   05   03.04˙ | -42   21   52.6 |
    | 03   05   06.12˙ | -41   21   57.4 |
    | 03   05   06.17˙ | -41   21   56.9 |
    | 03   05   08.21˙ | -41   20   32.0 |
    | 03   08   27.75˙ | -40   21   11.7 |
    | 03   08   27.79˙ | -40   21   11.2 |
    | 03   08   29.82˙ | -40   19   46.3 |
    | 03   08   32.29˙ | -39   19   51.0 |
    | 03   08   32.33˙ | -39   19   50.5 |
    | 03   08   34.32˙ | -39   18   25.6 |
    | 03   08   36.75˙ | -38   18   30.4 |
    | 03   08   38.76˙ | -38   17   05.0 |
    | 03   10   30.77˙ | -41   22   25.1 |
    | 03   10   30.77˙ | -42   23   46.1 |
    | 03   10   30.91˙ | -43   25   07.1 |
    | 03   10   32.98˙ | -41   21   00.1 |
    | 03   10   33.02˙ | -42   22   21.1 |
    | 03   10   33.20˙ | -43   23   42.1 |
    | 03   13   47.24˙ | -39   20   16.2 |
    | 03   13   47.26˙ | -38   18   55.2 |
    | 03   13   47.36˙ | -40   21   37.2 |
    | 03   13   47.40˙ | -40   21   36.7 |
    | 03   13   49.38˙ | -38   17   30.2 |
    | 03   13   49.38˙ | -39   18   51.2 |
    | 03   13   49.53˙ | -40   20   12.2 |
    | 03   15   55.42˙ | -41   21   54.5 |
    | 03   15   57.75˙ | -41   20   29.9 |
    | 03   16   00.60˙ | -42   23   15.1 |
    | 03   16   02.97˙ | -42   21   50.5 |
    | 03   16   06.22˙ | -43   24   35.8 |
    | 03   16   08.63˙ | -43   23   11.1 |
    | 03   18   57.77˙ | -38   18   27.9 |
    | 03   18   59.99˙ | -38   17   03.2 |
    | 03   19   02.19˙ | -39   19   48.5 |
    | 03   19   04.44˙ | -39   18   23.8 |
    | 03   19   06.99˙ | -40   21   09.1 |
    | 03   19   09.27˙ | -40   19   44.5 |
    | 13   09   56.64˙ | -23   36   12.9 |
    | 13   09   58.50˙ | -23   34   47.4 |
    | 13   10   00.36˙ | -23   33   22.0 |
    | 13   10   02.18˙ | -23   31   57.0 |
    | 13   10   04.00˙ | -23   30   32.0 |
    | 13   10   05.82˙ | -23   29   07.0 |
    | 13   10   07.64˙ | -23   27   42.0 |
    

    observed on 2017/08/20 -22 -23 -25 -31 2017/09/12 - 28

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  • c_cld by c_cld

    LIGO-VIRGO SCIENTISTS TO DISCUSS NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE ASTRONOMY

    *** MEDIA ADVISORY *** Issued jointly by the LIGO Laboratory, LIGO
    Scientific Collaboration, National Science Foundation, and Virgo
    Collaboration

    Scientists representing LIGO, Virgo, and some 70 observatories will
    reveal new details and discoveries made in the ongoing search for
    gravitational waves.

    WHEN:
    Monday, October 16, 2017
    16:00 CEST
    ** Panels to begin at 16:00 and 17:15, with a 15-minute break in between. Event expected to conclude by 18:30.

    16:00 CEST

    Moderator: France Córdova, Director of the National Science Foundation
    
        David Reitze, Executive Director, LIGO Laboratory/Caltech
        David Shoemaker, Spokesperson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration/MIT
        Jo van den Brand, Spokesperson, Virgo Collaboration/Nikhef, VU University Amsterdam
        Julie McEnery, Fermi Project Scientist, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
        Marica Branchesi, Virgo Collaboration/Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
        Vicky Kalogera, Astrophysicist, LIGO Scientific Collaboration/Northwestern University
    

    17:15 CEST

    Moderator: Jim Ulvestad, NSF Assistant Director (Acting) for Mathematical and Physical Sciences
    
    Laura Cadonati, Deputy Spokesperson, LIGO Scientific Collaboration/Georgia Tech
    Andy Howell, Staff Scientist at Las Cumbres Observatory/UC-Santa Barbara
    Ryan Foley, Assistant Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of California-Santa Cruz
    Marcelle Soares-Santos, Research Associate, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory/Brandeis University
    David Sand, Assistant Professor in Astronomy, University of Arizona
    Nial Tanvir, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Leicester, UK
    Edo Berger, Professor of Astronomy, Harvard University
    Eleonora Troja, Research Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland
    Alessandra Corsi, Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Texas Tech University

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  • c_cld by c_cld

    GW170817 - THE FIRST OBSERVATION OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES FROM A BINARY NEUTRON STAR INSPIRAL

    GW170817

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Exciting news ! 😄

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  • c_cld by c_cld

    GW170817

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