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Kip S. Thorne

Researcher at California Institute of Technology

Publications -  361
Citations -  72117

Kip S. Thorne is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gravitational wave & LIGO. The author has an hindex of 105, co-authored 360 publications receiving 63475 citations. Previous affiliations of Kip S. Thorne include Northwestern University & University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

B. P. Abbott, +1011 more
TL;DR: This is the first direct detection of gravitational waves and the first observation of a binary black hole merger, and these observations demonstrate the existence of binary stellar-mass black hole systems.
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GW170817: observation of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral

B. P. Abbott, +1134 more
TL;DR: The association of GRB 170817A, detected by Fermi-GBM 1.7 s after the coalescence, corroborates the hypothesis of a neutron star merger and provides the first direct evidence of a link between these mergers and short γ-ray bursts.
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Gravitational Waves and Gamma-Rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

B. P. Abbott, +1198 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the observed time delay of $(+1.74\pm 0.05)\,{\rm{s}}$ between GRB 170817A and GW170817 to constrain the difference between the speed of gravity and speed of light to be between $-3
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GW170104: Observation of a 50-Solar-Mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence at Redshift 0.2

B. P. Abbott, +1065 more
TL;DR: The magnitude of modifications to the gravitational-wave dispersion relation is constrain, the graviton mass is bound to m_{g}≤7.7×10^{-23} eV/c^{2} and null tests of general relativity are performed, finding that GW170104 is consistent with general relativity.
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Wormholes in spacetime and their use for interstellar travel: A tool for teaching general relativity

TL;DR: In this paper, a new class of solutions of the Einstein field equations is presented, which describe wormholes that, in principle, could be traversed by human beings, and it is essential in these solutions that the wormhole possess a throat at which there is no horizon.