Gravitational Waves' First Light

Without exception, Gravitational Wave discoveries are one of the most important developments in all of science. Predicted by Einstein in 1911, they were finally observed in 2016. In August of 2017, their counterparts were seen with telescopes. This is part of my complete intro Astronomy class that I taught at Willam Paterson University and CUNY Hunter.

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Credit links for this video
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/pre...
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http://hubblesite.org/images/news/rel...
http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017...
https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-ey...
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images...
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/images
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/video/li...
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Supplement the videos with "OpenStax Astronomy"
https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/...
23: The Death of Stars

https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/...
24: Black Holes and Curved Spacetime

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/about
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO)

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/phy...
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2017

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_o...
First observation of gravitational waves GW150914

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/gallery
LIGO Gallery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulse-T...
Hulse-Taylor binary

http://www.black-holes.org
Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes (SXS) project

   • Most Precise Ruler Ever Constructed  
Most Precise Ruler Ever Constructed

http://sci.esa.int/lisa-pathfinder/56...
Gravitational Wave form

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravita...
Too Much on Gravitational Waves

https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/76
Known black holes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lovell_...
Lovell Telescope

http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/2004/dou...
First-Known Double Pulsar Opens up New Astrophysics

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...
Discovered! Neutron star collision seen for the first time

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilonova
Kilonova

https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso...
Neutron star merger animation ending with kilonova explosion

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releas...
First observations of merging neutron stars mark a new era in astronomy

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12740
Doomed Neutron Stars Create Blast of Light and Gravitational Waves

https://www.caltech.edu/news/caltech-...
Caltech-Led Teams Strike Cosmic Gold

https://theconversation.com/cosmic-al...
Cosmic alchemy: Colliding neutron stars show us how the universe creates gold

http://hubblesite.org/image/4077/news...
The First Light with Hubble

http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/images...
The First Light with Spitzer

http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2017...
The First Light with Chandra

https://public.nrao.edu/news/radio-ey...
The First Light with the VLA

0:00 Introduction
0:01 The Gravitational Wave Spectrum
1:32 What if Two Neutron Stars Collided?
4:54 The Hulse-Taylor Pulsar Binary
9:00 Pulsar Workhorse!
10:24 Double Pulsars
11:38 Creation of a Double Pulsar and Kilonova
14:04 The First Light: August 17, 2017
16:13 The First GW from Merging Neutron Stars
19:05 Zooming in on GW170817
25:20 Binary Neutron Stars Mergring with Jets
26:03 Neutron Star Collisions make Gravitational Waves
29:45 KEY WEBSITES
31:54 Masses in the Stellar Graveyard