India’s crucial role in Spacetime project
Indian scientists played a crucial role, including in data analysis, in the pathbreaking project for the detection of gravitational waves, or ripples in space-time, which Albert Einstein predicted a century ago
By : migrator
Update: 2016-02-12 16:37 GMT
New Delhi
Several institutes including Institute of Plasma Research (IPR) Gandhinagar, Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA), Pune, and Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, were involved in the research.
The announcement of detection of gravitational waves was made si-multaneously at IUCAA, Pune, and by scientists in Washington DC, USA.
Advanced lab to come up:
Incidentally, India is also one of countries where an advanced gravitational laboratory is being set up. The proposed LIGO-India project aims to move the Advanced LIGO detector from Hanford to India.
The LIGO lab would provide the complete design and all the key detector components. Indian scientists would provide the infrastructure for installing the detector at a suitable site and would be responsible for commissioning it.
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