37 Indian scientists co-authors of gravitational waves discovery paper

Scientists stressed the Nobel prize would give impetus to LIGO India project.
37 Indian scientists from nine institutes were co-authors of the gravitational
waves discovery paper
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As many as 37 Indian scientists from nine institutes, including Inter-University
Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) here, were co-authors of the
gravitational waves discovery paper awarded the Nobel prize in Physics on
Tuesday.
Rainer Weiss, Barry C Barish and Kip S Thorne were named for the award for their
decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational
waves. Around 12 scientists from IUCAA were co-authors of the first discovery
paper.
Pioneer in gravitational waves astronomy in India, Sanjeev Dhurandhar said Indian
contribution played a major role, especially in extracting signal from noise, in
detecting the gravitational waves. Scientists stressed the Nobel prize would give
impetus to LIGO India project.

The group led by Dhurandhar at IUCAA initiated and carried out the foundation work
on developing data analysis techniques to detect the weak gravitational wave
signals buried in the detector's noise by looking for the best match between the
calculated waveforms and the detector's signal.
Dhurandhar told TOI on Tuesday, "I have been working and contributing in this field
for the past 30 years. India's contribution is quite a bit and we have played an
important role in the discovery.
It was a big challenge. Many thought it was an impossible task 30 years ago, but I
took it up and it has received the well-deserved Nobel."
LIGO India spokesperson Tarun Souradeep said the Nobel prize would give impetus to
the India project.