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  • Home
  • About
    • Vision & Mission
    • Join OzGrav
    • Mental Health and Wellbeing
    • Getting started in OzGrav
    • Funding Opportunities
    • Diversity and Inclusion
    • Code of Conduct
    • OzGrav Mentoring Program
    • Nodes & Partners
    • Facilities & Capabilities
    • Reports >
      • Annual Reports
      • Industry Success Stories
      • Strategic Plan
    • Member resources
  • Our People
    • Chief Investigators
    • Partner Investigators
    • Associate Investigators
    • Postdocs and Students >
      • Faces of OzGrav
    • Professional & Outreach staff
    • Governance Advisory Committee
    • Scientific Advisory Committee
    • Executive Committee
    • Equity & Diversity Committee
    • Early Career Researcher Committee
    • Professional Development Committee
    • Research Translation Committee
    • OzGrav Alumni
  • Research Themes
    • Instrumentation
    • Data/Astro
    • How to write a research brief
  • Education and Outreach
  • Events
    • OzFink workshop 2023
    • 2022 OzGrav ECR Workshop and Annual Retreat
    • Upcoming and Past Events
  • News/Media
    • News
    • Newsletter
    • Binary Neutron Star Discovery
  • Contact Us

OzGrav apps

SciVR: Immersive Science​ - virtual reality


The SciVR app is your gateway to a universe of science, bringing the incredible invisible universe to you.


Download the free app to your smartphone. You can use the app in headset (stereo) mode, or single-view (mono) mode.
Apple iTunes Download
Google Play download
scivr website
Visit the SciVR website for info about headsets, event times and locations across Victoria as part of National Science Week in 2018 and 2019, and online in 2020 and 2021 with thanks to National Science Week funding.

Laser Labs
Games and Apps


Fun games designed by gravitational wave scientists to explain the science behind black holes and gravitational waves:
  • Pocket Black Hole;
  • Stretch and Squash;
  • Space Time Quest;
  • Black Hole Master.

https://www.laserlabs.org/portfolio.php
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Games and Visualisations by OzGrav member Avi Vajpeyi


Fun games and visualisations created by PhD student Avi. Click on images to follow links.
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OzGrav PhD students Isobel Romero-Shaw and Debatri Chattopadhyay published
some science books for the general public, students, families and children.
Order your copy through Amazon.com.au

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Women in physics colouring book

Embark on a journey through time with some amazing women who changed the course of history with their physics research! Money raised supports Debatri and Isobel's leadership training trip to Antarctica with the Homeward Bound program. https://www.amazon.com.au/Women-Physics-Colouring-Isobel-Romero-Shaw/dp/0645041122/
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Planet names

Don't you just LOVE Isobel's planet drawings? Find out how the planets got their names.  https://www.amazon.com.au/Planetymology-Uranus-called-George-other/dp/B08JKVMX3Y/

Einstein First
Project


Einstein-First began by developing innovative methods for teaching school age children the concepts of Einsteinian physics – curved space, warped time, photons, black holes and quantum entanglement. The project led to an international research collaboration and a new partnership with education authorities and Western Australian primary and secondary schools, that is developing and implementing an Einsteinian science curriculum from Years 3 to 10.

Visit https://www.einsteinianphysics.com/ or to get your school involved please email kyla.adams@uwa.edu.au

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Chirp!

Chirp is an app that allows you to keep track of the latest collisions of black holes, neutron stars and maybe more, just minutes after they are detected by the growing international gravitational wave detector network - LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravtiational Wave Interferometer) in USA, Virgo in Italy, and KAGRA in Japan. We are looking forward to Observing Run 4 starting in early 2023.

Chirp is available for Android, iOS and web and can be downloaded for free here. It contains no ads and no in app purchases. If you prefer to use a webpage instead of a mobile app, or just want to see what this is all about, have a look at: http://chirp.sr.bham.ac.uk/

Fun Sheets

Download some fun colouring sheets, crosswords, find-a-words and mazes.
Click here for an online crossword celebrating the 2017 Nobel Prize for detection of gravitational waves.

LIGO and virgo

Gravtiational Wave Open Science Centre

Explore gravitational wave data with interactive tools
Contribute to scientific searches
Keep up-to-date with LIGO and VIRGO event announcements


https://www.gw-openscience.org/interactive/

Masses of Dead Stars


Interactive graph showing black holes, neutron stars and detected mergers creating gravitational waves.
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Gravoscope

Gravoscope combines two distinct views of the Universe. You can explore our Galaxy (the Milky Way) and the distant Universe in a range of wavelengths from gamma-rays to the longest radio waves. Change the wavelength using the slider in the top right of the screen and explore space using your mouse. Gravoscope also allows you to overlay the projected possible locations of gravitational waves detected by Advanced LIGO. Cardiff University.
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We acknowledge and pay respects to the Elders and Traditional Owners of the land on which our six Australian nodes stand

​© 2022   The ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational  Wave Discovery (OzGrav)
Banner images: An artist's impression of gravitational waves generated by binary neutron stars.  Credits: R. Hurt/Caltech-JPL
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