Searches for gravitational waves with the network of interferometric detectors
by
Sergey KLIMENKO(University of Florida, USA)
→
Europe/Rome
LNL Meeting Room (INFN LNL)
LNL Meeting Room
INFN LNL
Description
Gravitational waves (GW) is one of the most important predictions of General Relativity. Ripples of space-time, they are expected to be produced by astrophysical sources such as binary systems of black holes and neutron stars, pulsars, supernova explosions and other violent phenomena in the Universe. Currently there are several gravitational wave detectors operating around the world with continuously improving sensitivity. We believe that such a network of detectors will allow us a confident detection of gravitational waves in the nearest future and open a new era of the GW astronomy. In the presentation I will describe the current status of gravitational wave searches, recent results and ongoing analyses of experimental data, the most promising sources and prospects for their detection. If detected can we reconstruct GW signals? How many detectors we need? How we combine measurements from different detectors? What interesting astrophysical measurements can we perform? How we benefit from coincident observations with other, non-GW experiments? - I will discuss these and other questions related to the GW data analysis and the prospects of future GW astronomy.
