National Central University

Why Gravitational Waves?

1. Fundamental

   Detecting and analyzing the information carried by gravitational waves is allowing us to observe the Universe in a way never before possible, providing astronomers and other scientists with their first glimpses of literally un-seeable wonders.

2. New probe

   Apart from astrophysical sources, general relativity and modified theories of gravity can also be tested by their impact on the GW spectrum.

3. Mysteries

   Gravitational wave mystery could be a sign of a new kind of black hole. A strange set of gravitational waves have been sent across space by a mysterious object. It could be the smallest black hole ever found or the largest neutron star.

Research Key Words

Gravity is one of the fundamental and mysterious topics in physics. On 2015, LIGO detected the first signal of gravitational wave. After this discovery, they observe a lot of new evidences. Nowadays, we can observe the gravitational wave event every 10days in average. So, Now is the time to study the gravitational wave physics.

• Gravitational waves detector calibration
• Multi-messenger Astronomy
• R&D Future GW Detector
• Cosmology

Activities

• Journal club: Our group organize the weekly journal club. Student and staff explain the recent research topics. You can catch up the state of the art study in journal club. Professor and Postdoc give you advice to understand the new topics.

• Weekly meeting: The weekly meeting is held for sharing the research progress. The members in Joint group between Academia Sinica and NCU give progress report every week.

• Communication Tool: Our group employs some communication tools to improve research efficiency. When you will join our team, you can use the wiki, Gitlab, Slack, and Redmine, and so on.