SkyMappa
Created in August 2022 as part of the University of York Masterclass Research Placement and for a very curious grandma, SkyMappa hopes to make the astrological marvel that is gravitational waves accessible and understandable to the general public. Follow through the history of LIGO and VIRGO with the timeline or learn about the how what and where of gravitational waves in the discover section.
Author
Hi! I’m Lizzie, a Physics with Astrophysics student at the University of York with a passion for all things space. I hope SkyMappa is a good introduction to the exciting field of gravitational wave exploration and inspires you to look more into the subject. If you’d like to get in touch, you can email me here!
Lizzie
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Dr Josie Rawes of the University of York for her help and support during the making of this project, my grandma for inspiring the project and JT for his website-building expertise.
Data
All data sourced from GWOSC (gw-openscience.org) licensed under CC BY 4.0.
R. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), “Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo”, SoftwareX 13 (2021) 100658.
This research has made use of data or software obtained from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center (gwosc.org), a service of LIGO Laboratory, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and KAGRA. LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO are funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction of Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. Additional support for Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. Virgo is funded, through the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), by the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the Dutch Nikhef, with contributions by institutions from Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, Spain. KAGRA is supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in Japan; National Research Foundation (NRF) and Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) in Korea; Academia Sinica (AS) and National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) in Taiwan.
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