Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LE170100217
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Australian Partnership in Advanced LIGO+. This project aims to improve the sensitivity of the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (aLIGO). aLIGO’s detection of gravitational waves proved general relativity in the strong field limit and the existence of black hole binary systems. The increased sensitivity will enable daily detections and new classes of events, opening the field of gravitational wave astronomy. Since telescopes can detect only 5% of the stuff in the universe, this is expected to greatly improve understanding of the universe. This Australian partnership will put its physicists and astronomers at the vanguard of this field and inspire the next generation to study the physical sciences.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2017
End Date: 05-2021
Funding Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities
Funding Amount: $850,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified | Astronomical and Space Sciences | General Relativity and Gravitational Waves | Astronomical and Space Instrumentation
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Engineering | Expanding Knowledge in Technology |
