China launched research project gravitational waves – People’s Daily Online

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BEIJING, Feb. 14 (Xinhua) – the discovery of gravitational waves in the United States on Thursday Observatory Laser Interferometer gravitational wave (LIGO, for short in English) has encouraged scientists worldwide and China is ready to accelerate research.

Tianqin the exploration project gravitational waves from China initiated by the Sun Yat-sen University in July 2015 , still awaiting government approval, said Li Miao, dean of the Institute of Astronomy and Space Sciences of that university, based in the southern province of Guangdong.

Tianqin, meaning celestial musical instrument Mandarin Chinese, will take place at an estimated cost of 15,000 yuan (2,300 million) in four stages over the next 15 to 20 years, and the last phase will be the launch of three high-orbit satellites to capture . gravitational waves

Chen Yanbei, LIGO scientist explained that Tianqin study gravitational waves from space, a different form of research against the US observatory on Earth.

” Tianqin may request further information from the phenomenon, since in space could detect more black hole compared captured on Earth, “said Chen.

the Sun Yat-sen University is willing to cooperate with other domestic and foreign institutions to carry out their project, said Li, with plans for an observatory and laboratory of 15,000 square meters in Fenghuang mountain in the city of Zhuhai, Guangdong.

Another project wave domestic gravitational, “Ali” which was named after the observatory of China Academy of Sciences (CAS) in Ali, Tibet, and directed by the institute of high energy physics of CAS, has completely different objectives: detect first tremors of the big Bang, the primordial gravitational waves.

the researcher Zhang Xinmin the CAS said that thanks to its high altitude and great weather, Ali is regarded as the fourth best place balloon to detect waves paramount.

“Ali will be much cheaper. The first phase will cost about 100 million yuan and results are expected in five years, “he said.

China is lagging in investigating gravitational waves, so the team is looking for international and foreign specialists cooperation said the head of the Institute of high energy physics of CAS, Wang Yifang.

“Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago have expressed interest and we have agreements with some of the research institutes Americans, “Wang said

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