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  • Alessandro Nagar, Thibault Damour Scientific activity

    Crucial theoretical breakthrough to detect gravitational waves

    Combining an analytical approach with numerical methods, an international team of physicists has obtained an accurate theoretical description of the gravitational waves emitted during the last orbits of a binary system made of two neutron stars. This new result could have a significant astronomical impact in allowing the detectors LIGO and Virgo to observe these waves in the next few years.

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