12–14 Dec 2022
Centro Universitario Padovano
Europe/Rome timezone

Microlensing of gravitational waves by dark matter

13 Dec 2022, 12:00
30m
Sala Grande (Centro Universitario Padovano)

Sala Grande

Centro Universitario Padovano

Via Zabarella, 82, 35121 Padova PD

Speaker

Ville Vaskonen

Description

Gravitational lensing of gravitational waves provides a potential new probe of dark matter structures. In this talk, I will focus on the microlensing effect on gravitational wave signals from compact object binaries. I will describe how this effect changes the gravitational wave signal and discuss whether it can be detected. I will show that primordial black holes and other compact dark matter objects can be probed through the microlensing of gravitational waves.

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