by Giada Rossi | April 3, 2024 | last each category, News
LIGO and Virgo detectors restart gravitational wave observation Next week, the LIGO and Virgo detectors will resume their observing campaigns, which promise to collect more than 200 gravitational-wave events by the end of this current observing run (O4). Astronomers...
by Giada Rossi | February 13, 2024 | last each category, News
Samaya Nissanke awarded AAS HEAD 2024 Mid-Career Prize Virgo researcher Dr. Samaya Nissanke, astrophysicist at the University of Amsterdam, received the 2024 Mid-Career Prize of the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society. The Prize is...
by Giada Rossi | January 25, 2024 | last each category, News
Space GW observatory LISA advances to the construction phase LISA, the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, has passed a major review with flying colours: the entire concept – from the definition of the overall mission and operations to the space hardware to be...
by Giada Rossi | December 14, 2023 | last each category, News
Einstein Telescope: Italian Governement increases commitment to candidacy The Italian government formalized an increased commitment, both institutional and financial, to the Italian candidacy to host Einstein Telescope, the third generation European gravitational wave...
by Giada Rossi | November 23, 2023 | last each category, News
Berrie Giebels passed away at 52 It is with great sadness that we learn of the death of former EGO Council president Berrie Giebels, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 52, after a year-long battle with cancer. From 2016 to 2022 he was first president and...
by Giada Rossi | November 9, 2023 | last each category, News
Winners of the Virgo Awards 2023 announced Young researchers Yuefan Guo (Maastricht University), Kamiel Janssens (University of Antwerp) and Alba Romero-Rodriguez (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) are the winners of the third edition of the Virgo Award, given by the...
by Giada Rossi | October 17, 2023 | last each category, News
Virgo will join O4 early 2024 The Virgo Collaboration updated the scientific community last week on the progress of the Virgo detector commissioning, in view of joining the fourth observing run (O4) already undertaken by the two US LIGO interferometers in...
by Giada Rossi | August 4, 2023 | last each category, News, Notizie, ultimo_ogni_categoria
EGO welcomes new observer members from Belgium, Spain and Poland We are proud to announce that several new institutions from Belgium, Spain and Poland are joining, as observer members, the EGO council, the governing body of the European Gravitational Observatory,...
by Giada Rossi | July 24, 2023 | last each category, News
20th anniversary of Virgo’s inauguration On July 23rd 2003, exactly 20 years ago the Virgo detector was inaugurated. The official start of its scientific and technological mission was celebrated in an important ceremony, attended by government representatives of...
by Giada Rossi | July 24, 2023 | AHEAD2020, last each category, News
AHEAD2020 Announcement of Opportunity Cycle 6 The AHEAD2020 (Integrated Activities for High Energy Astrophysics*) calls for a program of transnational visits and remote access activities to be performed starting ~ October 2023. The main objectives are: 1) fostering...
