Gravitational Wave Astrophysics (with LISA)

by Pau Amaro Seoane (Institut de Ciencies de l'Espai, Barcelona (Spa) and Technische UniversitÀt Berlin (De))

Wednesday 23 May 2018, 16:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

Aula Conversi (Dipartimento di Fisica. Ed. G. Marconi)

In this talk I will summarise the most promising sources of GWs to be detected by the space-borne Observatory LISA. I will focus on the gravitational capture of a compact object by a massive black hole. This process probe gravity in the strong regime. There has not been any other mission conceived, planned or even thought of ever that can do the science that we can do with them. I will try to avoid technical terms and focus on the broad picture.