by Guglielmo 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 Guglielmo 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 Guglielmo 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 Guglielmo 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...
by Guglielmo Rossi | July 18, 2023 | last each category, News
Luca Della Santina new administrative director of EGO Luca Della Santina, an engineer and former top manager at the Region of Tuscany, is the new administrative director of the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) in Cascina, which hosts the Virgo gravitational...
by Guglielmo Rossi | June 29, 2023 | last each category, News, Notizie, ultimo_ogni_categoria
Pulsar timing arrays open up a new window of GW astronomy In a series of articles published today in “The Astrophysical Journal Letters” and “Astronomy and Astrophysics” researchers from EPTA, InPTA, PPTA, CPTA and NANOGrav have announced the detection of a...
by Guglielmo Rossi | May 24, 2023 | last each category, News
Gravitational Wave Detectors Start Next Observing Run to Explore the Secrets of the Universe Today the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration begins a new observing run with upgraded instruments, new and even more accurate signal models, and more advanced data analysis...
by Guglielmo Rossi | May 11, 2023 | last each category, News
Virgo postpones entry into O4 observing run The Virgo Collaboration has decided to postpone the entry of Virgo in the next observing run (O4), scheduled for May 24th, in order to continue the detector commissioning activities and further increase its sensitivity....
by Guglielmo Rossi | May 3, 2023 | last each category, News
Gravitational wave detectors prepare for next observing run The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration is making progress towards the start of the next observing run. After three years of work to improve the performance of the detectors, Observing Run 4 (O4) is expected to...
by Guglielmo Rossi | April 1, 2023 | last each category, News
VIRGO: A CODED MESSAGE FROM A REMOTE GALAXY IN A GRAVITATIONAL WAVE [ #AprilFools! Thanks for having fun with us and INFN today. This joke was inspired by the short story ‘The Light Years’ from ‘The Cosmicomics’ by iconic italian author Italo...
