PUNE: As many as 37 Indian scientists from nine institutes, including Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA) here, were co-researchers 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 significant offerings to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves. Around 12 scientists from IUCAA were co-researchers of the first discovery paper.
Break new ground in gravitational waves astronomy in India, Sanjeev Dhurandhar said Indian contribution played a most important role, especially in extracting signal from noise, to become aware of the gravitational waves. Scientists frazzled the Nobel Prize would award impetus to LIGO India project.
The group led by Dhurandhar at IUCAA made the first move and carried out the foundation work on developing data analysis techniques to identify 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, "I have been functioning and contributing in this field for the past 30 years. India's contribution is quite a bit and we have played an imperative role in the discovery.
It was an immense challenge. Many thought it was an impossible task 30 years ago, but I took it up and it has acknowledged and well-deserved Nobel."
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