Gravitational waves as probes of fundamental physics
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Prof.Leonardo Gualtieri(Sapienza Università di Roma )
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Description
The detection of gravitational waves emitted by coalescing black hole and neutron star binaries gives us access to the strong-field regime of the gravitational interaction.
The next generation of gravitational wave detectors (such as the Einstein Telescope and the space-based detector LISA) will perform precision measurements in this regime, providing the opportunity to test fundamental physics with astrophysical observations.
I will discuss how black holes and neutron stars can be used as laboratories to test general relativity in presence of extreme gravitational fields, to understand how matter behaves at extreme densities, and to put constraints to dark matter candidate.
