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Campaign supernova: why I need a finely tuned antenna

Julia Casanueva enhances the sensitivity of the Virgo interferometer to better detect distant stellar explosions.
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Julia Casanueva Diaz, physicist at the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO).

Julia Casanueva is a researcher at the Virgo interferometer, outside Pisa, Italy. Credit: Enrico Sacchetti for Nature

Throughout my graduate studies, I enjoyed experimental physics and working on the instrumentation much more than doing data analysis. In 2014, I jumped at the chance to do my PhD at the interferometric gravitational-wave antenna known as Virgo, located outside Pisa, Italy. I arrived at the facility in November 2015.

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Nature 603, 542 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-00730-2

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  • Correction 22 March 2022: An earlier version of this story article erroneously stated that the Virgo antenna is part of the European Space Agency. It also misstated the details of the discovery of the gravitational waves and the timing of the installation of the seventh mirror.

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