I've been working on a mobile app so
that people can receive gravitational wave alerts
So whenever we've seen or think we've seen a gravitational wave event
people can get alerts
through to their phones
The reason why I started
working on this project was that
my cousins were always sad
whenever I had to leave my home town
and I couldn't play games with them and I had to
come back to the University to do work
so I wanted to try and build an app so that
they could get alerts their phone
and then see what work we've helped contribute towards
We've developed a few apps already to explain
some of the fundamental aspects of our research
but there was nothing really
to help the general public
keep-up to date with the detections that
we were observing quite frequently now
what's really fantastic is that the web version
of Chirp already has hundreds of views a day
and people are using it right the way from children through to professional astronomers
