19–21 Feb 2019
"Sapienza" University, Phys. Dept. Marconi
Europe/Rome timezone

Anisotropies in the stochastic gravitational-wave background

20 Feb 2019, 16:10
17m
Aula Amaldi ("Sapienza" University, Phys. Dept. Marconi)

Aula Amaldi

"Sapienza" University, Phys. Dept. Marconi

Rome
talk General Relativity and Cosmology Gravitational Waves

Speaker

Alexander Jenkins (King's College London)

Description

In the new era of gravitational-wave astronomy, one of the most exciting targets for future observations is the stochastic gravitational-wave background (SGWB). While we have yet to detect the SGWB, we expect that by studying the angular power spectrum of its anisotropies, we may learn about the large-scale structure of the Universe (analogous to studies of the CMB). With this in mind, we develop detailed models of the SGWB anisotropies from two important sources of gravitational waves: unresolved compact binary coalescences, and cosmic strings.

Primary author

Alexander Jenkins (King's College London)

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