Speaker
Thomas Sotiriou
(University of Nottingham)
Description
I will first discuss under which circumstances can black holes carry scalar charge and how such charge would scale with the mass of the black hole. I will use this insight to argue that EMRIs are an ideal system for searches of new fundamental scalars and lay out the framework for modelling EMRIs. I will then present forecasts on LISA's ability to measure scalar charge.
Primary author
Thomas Sotiriou
(University of Nottingham)
