{"id":3138,"date":"2022-02-04T07:07:46","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T07:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=3138"},"modified":"2022-02-04T07:10:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T07:10:31","slug":"houston-astronomical-society-presentation-by-noah-pearson-on-28-jan-2022-comments-and-suggestions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/?p=3138","title":{"rendered":"Houston Astronomical Society Presentation by Noah Pearson on 28 Jan 2022 &#8211; comments and suggestions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Luis,<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">This was a good presentation.\u00a0 On Vimeo, watching reruns, no way to say &#8220;Thank you to the presenter&#8221; or to ask questions.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 80px;\">We live in a world where any author&#8217;s work might be available globally for all time forward.\u00a0 And, it they are living, the small matter of &#8220;time&#8221; it taken care of by email and comment forms.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I wanted to tell him to extend his sensitivity chart out to gamma ray frequencies. There is extensive work going on to calculate and try to measure gravitational signals across all frequencies accessible to electromagnetism.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">He did not mention the atom interferometer versions of LIGO and LISA.\u00a0 Shorter wavelengths mean much smaller devices. There are atom interferometer chips and gravitational detectors.\u00a0 And many groups working on low cost, desktop and portable devices.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Tell him thank you.\u00a0 If he wants to write me, I am happy to chat.\u00a0 I met some of the founders of gravitational wave detection when I was at UMD College Park in the later 1970&#8217;s.\u00a0 They intended it to be used for communication, imaging and practical applications.\u00a0 He is young and will survive, but might find working on large government funded projects is hard. And generally not that lucrative if he is thinking of starting a family one day.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Photoproduction of high-frequency gravitational radiation by galactic and extragalactic sources<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/full\/1989A%26A...208..345P\">https:\/\/adsabs.harvard.edu\/full\/1989A%26A&#8230;208..345P<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The consensus seems to be that these higher frequencies can tell a lot about the contents and properties of intergalactic space.\u00a0 There are a number of lab experiments going on.\u00a0 It needs to be organized and standardized so that people can see how it all fits together.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cgravitational Compton scattering&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;gravitational polarizability&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;graviton photoproduction&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;Graviton-photon scattering&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;gravitational&#8221; &#8220;forward scattering&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Gravitons to Photons&#8211;Attenuation of Gravitational Waves<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.erau.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=2113&amp;context=publication\">https:\/\/commons.erau.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=2113&amp;context=publication<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Exact Gravitational Shockwaves and Planckian Scattering on Branes<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/493747\/files\/0104009.pdf\">https:\/\/cds.cern.ch\/record\/493747\/files\/0104009.pdf<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I suggest concentrating on energy spectrum and keep groups working on the same energy and scale together.\u00a0 Every group has their favorite mathematical notations, algorithms, programming languages, data sources. But when you combine methods from all the groups working on a given scale and energy range, it is easier and faster to look for connections and applications.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For instance any group using multipole expansions for nuclear and atomic reactions in the 10 eV to 10 MeV bond energy range will be able to estimate the precise spectrum, direction and modulation of the signals &#8211; and have the sensors and tools to verify.<\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Good luck and thanks for a nice presentation.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Richard Collins<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis, This was a good presentation.\u00a0 On Vimeo, watching reruns, no way to say &#8220;Thank you to the presenter&#8221; or to ask questions. 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