Conveners
Gravitational Waves and the other messengers
- Giancarlo Cella (PI)
- Barbara Patricelli (PI)
Giovanni Losurdo
(PI)
19/10/2016, 09:40
Gravitational Waves
Talk
Advanced Virgo, the project designed to make Virgo 10 times more sensitive, has finally been completed. The light is circulating in the arms and the detector is being commissioned, with the goal of joining the two LIGOs in the next observation run in early 2017. The story of the project, the main technology aspects and the short and mid-term perspectives are reviewed in this talk.
Michele Punturo
(PG)
19/10/2016, 10:35
Gravitational Waves
Talk
The detection of the GW emitted by the coalescence of a two black hole binary system, disclosed the new era of the GW astronomy. Advanced detectors will allow the detection of several GW sources, but to evolve toward the precision astronomy and astrophysics are needed new observatories with improved sensitivities and challenging performances. In this talk the path toward the realisation of the...
Dr
Peter Wass
(Imperial College London)
19/10/2016, 11:20
Gravitational Waves
Talk
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna or LISA is a future ESA satellite mission to observe mill-Hertz gravitational waves originating from extreme events such as the merger of supermassive black holes. Gravitational waves will be measured as they pass through a million-km arm-length interferometer whose test masses are perfectly free-falling through space. The technology demonstration mission...
Mr
Andrea Taracchini
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics)
19/10/2016, 11:45
Gravitational Waves
Talk
The direct observation and characterization of gravitational waves from binary black-hole mergers by LIGO is a testament to the crucial role played by waveform modeling in these discoveries. I will review recent developments in the field, discussing both numerical and analytical approaches to the problem of compact-object binaries and their gravitational-wave emission.
Paola Leaci
(ROMA1)
19/10/2016, 12:10
Gravitational Waves
Talk
The upgrade of worldwide gravitational-wave network has led to the first transient gravitational-wave detection, which has started to hone the comprehension we have about our Universe, and some of its constituents. A broader picture would be however provided by the detection of continuous-wave signals, which could be more easily achieved by exploiting the synergy with multimessenger Astronomy....
Elena Cuoco
(EGO and INFN PI)
19/10/2016, 12:30
Gravitational Waves
Talk
Noise of non-astrophysical origin contaminates science data taken by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors. Characterization of instrumental and environmental noise transients has proven critical in identifying false positives in the first aLIGO observing run O1. In this talk, we present three algorithms designed for...
