Coalescing compact binaries: from first discoveries to populations

by Dr John Veitch (Cardiff University)

Friday 5 Oct 2018, 15:30 → 16:30 Europe/Rome

aula 248

In the last 3 years the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational wave detectors have detected a population of coalescing compact binaries - neutron stars and black holes. With these first sources we are beginning to glimpse the population of such transient events throughout the universe. I will describe recent results and show how we can learn the properties of these objects from the noisy detector data. I will then look ahead at how gravitational wave astronomy can combine information from many such events to reveal the details of their populations.

Slides PisaSeminar.pdf