Conveners
Black Holes Astrophysics
- Maria Antonietta Palaia (University of Pisa)
- Francesco Tarantelli (University of Pisa)
Black Holes Astrophysics
- Giuseppe Di Somma (University of Pisa)
- Lucia Papalini (University of Pisa)
Massive black hole binaries (MBHBs) are expected to form at the centre of merging galaxies during the hierarchical assembly of the cosmic structure and are expected to be the loudest sources of gravitational waves (GWs) in the low frequency domain surveyed by the ongoing Pulsar Timing Array (PTA) campaigns and by the forthcoming LISA observatory.
A meaningful assessment of the detection...
The hyperbolic encounters of two massive objects are characterized by the emission of a gravitational wave burst, with most of the energy released during the closest approach (near the periastron). The detection of such events, different from the well-known inspiral emission, would be an interesting discovery and provide complementary information to observations of binary mergers of black...
