Gravitational Wave Events

But then again, too few to mention! (Just some UI/screen scaling/link info stuff) Keep up the good work :-}

I’m not a scientist I’m just a train driver in the UK. I enjoy getting the chirps when I’m with my friends and work mates when I’ll explain to them what has happened somewhere in the universe. I think I do the app justice. I usually tell them we’ve just been hugged by the universe. Most people think it’s just great some of them think I’m slightly crazy.

Interesting app, allows you to feel connected to cutting edge science.

This app allows me to gain real time information about gravitational wave events. It’s a nice, simple app, functional and practical. It doesn’t have bugs or crashes, and it works pretty well on my phone.

Wonderful to get alerts and imagine the events in the universe that might have caused them

Makes sense of a complex science. Great fun except when it chirps in the early hrs of the morning!

If you want access to messages that the professionals use to discuss what is going on this is the app for you. You will get an alert 20 seconds after an event happens. Excellent interface too.

This app provides realtime alerts and reporting from around the world on the emerging field of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. It allows one to filter on and receive notifications for event types of interest. I enjoy getting notifications every few days on some new event or observations. Especially fascinating are events involving neutron stars, since they are the most likely to have remnants that can be observed by other means. I have read practically every report by teams trying to correlate observations of neutron star events, and am always amazed by the different teams of astronomers working together to understand the nature of the universe. This app is perfect for anyone who wishes to experience real-time and understand this emerging field and technology better.

It’s hard to believe you can get instant notifications on gravitational wave events on your personal smartphone. That we can detect them at all is a miracle of modern science. I must admit however that much of the info presented in this app is technical and over my head, with numerous acronyms I don’t understand and technical data given that I cannot interpret. Thus, the app could be improved if there were significant descriptions and background info on GW events, the various detectors, the info presented, etc. Photos of the detectors for example and graphics would be super helpful. Thanks, B

Like distant continuous crackling thunder LIGO leves me in in stunned amazement of the immensity of the cosmos. Like any background radiation you keep thinking there could be a pattern and just get hypnotized by the static. As a kid in the 60s watching Trek, I never imagined that we would actually someday hear this. Still in Awe. ✨