Ages^2: taking stellar ages to the next power

Session

Special talk

20 Sept 2017, 21:30

La Biodola, Isola d'Elba

6. The dawn of gravitational wave astronomy and the multimessenger Universe

Massimiliano Razzano (Università di Pisa/INFN)

20/09/2017, 21:30

invited talk

The detection of gravitational waves from the coalescence of binary black hole systems marked the birth of gravitational wave astronomy and opened a new chapter in the multimessenger investigation of the Universe. Among gravitational wave sources, mergers of compact objects with at least one neutron star are thought to be associated with electromagnetic transient phenomena (e.g. short Gamma...