Prof. Salvatore Vitale, Principal Investigator, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research, https://physics.mit.edu/faculty/salvatore-vitale/ (remote)
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Event Information:
TALK RECORDING AVAILABLE AT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KhUBNa57gTUUcqiO76yYEErsIPNuI9v5/view?usp=sharing
Abstract:
Eight years after the discovery of the first gravitational-wave signal, the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have observed more than 100 mergers of black holes and neutron stars. After describing what gravitational waves can reveal, both about individual sources and their underlying populations, I will summarize some of the results obtained with the most recent dataset. These include measurements of the mass and spin distribution of black holes in binaries and hints of how their astrophysical formation channels might have evolved with redshift.
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2023-11-08T15:00:002023-11-08T16:00:00Gravitational-wave astrophysics Event Information:
TALK RECORDING AVAILABLE AT: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KhUBNa57gTUUcqiO76yYEErsIPNuI9v5/view?usp=sharing
Abstract:
Eight years after the discovery of the first gravitational-wave signal, the ground-based gravitational-wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have observed more than 100 mergers of black holes and neutron stars. After describing what gravitational waves can reveal, both about individual sources and their underlying populations, I will summarize some of the results obtained with the most recent dataset. These include measurements of the mass and spin distribution of black holes in binaries and hints of how their astrophysical formation channels might have evolved with redshift.Event Location:
Henning 318