Virgo interferometer
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title:
Virgo interferometer
text:
The Virgo interferometer is a large Michelson interferometer designed to detect the gravitational waves predicted by general relativity. It is in Santo Stefano a Macerata, near the city of Pisa, Italy. The instrument's two arms are three kilometres long and contain its mirrors and instrumentation inside an ultra-high vacuum. Virgo is hosted by the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), a consortium founded by the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Italian Istituto
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Gravitational wave detector in Santo Stefano a Macerata, Tuscany, Italy
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgo_interferometer
date created:
2006-08-30T09:17:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T14:43:16Z
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