"Sometimes you need a hammer, sometimes you need a screwdriver, sometimes you need two black holes many times the mass of the Sun"
On our latest results with #GW240925 and #GW250207 https://www.iflscience.com/this-wasnt-really-something-we-were-expecting-to-be-able-to-do-black-hole-collisions-can-now-be-used-to-autotune-gravitational-wave-detectors-83490 by @DrCarpineti
Special thanks to the team at @UofGravity for translating the #GW240925 & #GW250207 infographics into Glaswegian
#Glasgow 🏴
The #GW240925 and #GW250207 paper released yesterday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11703
and you can learn more about the science in this thread
"On the application of astrophysical signals to gravitational-wave detector calibration" — an artistic interpretation of our latest science with #GW240925 and #GW250207 by @ASleepyWanderer
For the first time, we have used the signals from binary black holes to check the precise calibration of our detectors
These #GW240925 and #GW250207 infographics have been translated into a range of languages by our LIGO Virgo KAGRA Collaboration members
https://dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-G2600852/public
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There are many benefits to being an international collaboration!
Data products for our new discoveries #GW240925 and #GW250207 are available from
https://zenodo.org/records/18600070
Explore our results to learn more about our science
🔭🧪⚛️☄️ #OpenData #OpenScience
Autotuning gravitational-wave detectors using the chirps of the cosmos!
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Meet #GW240925 and #GW250207, two new, LOUD #GravitationalWave detections that have enabled us to use astrophysical calibration to tune our laser interferometers
🖼️ : S Galaudage, S Biscoveanu
Our detectors are usually well calibrated. There was an unusual issue for Hanford cat the time of #GW240925
Here is a comparison of the miscalibration to recalibrated data after fixing the issue. Some frequencies are more problematic than others
🎬: E Todd [email protected]
In a new paper out today, we explain how we have used #GW240925 and #GW250207 for astrophysical calibration of our detectors
Using the characteristic chirp of a gravitational-wave signal, we can check that our detectors are in tune 🎶
LIGO