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A thermal camera trick could let LIGO see twice as far

phys.org · 11dShare

There's a nice kind of irony buried in this story: One of the most sensitive instruments ever built, capable of measuring distortions smaller than the width of a proton, has been quietly held back by something as mundane as heat. And the fix, it turns out, is not some exotic new sensor but a thermal camera you could genuinely buy off the shelf.

First report: A Thermal Camera Trick Could Let LIGO See Twice as Far — universetoday.com, 12d