Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars
All sky searches for gravitational waves from rotating neutron stars in LIGO and Virgo data
by Prof. Andrzej Królak (IMPAN (The Institute of Mathematics,) POLAND)
Tuesday, December 15, 2015
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at TIFR ( AG66 )
at TIFR ( AG66 )
Description |
Currently a world-wide network of large scale gravitational wave detectors is under operation. Direct detection of gravitational radiation will constitute an ultimate test of Einstein's theory of general relativity and perhaps provide clues for a new physics needed to explain space-time singularities predicted by Einstein's theory. Observations of gravitational waves will open a new astronomy - gravitational wave astronomy. As gravitational wave signals are rare and deeply buried in the noise of the detector their detection will require extraordinary large computing resources and very efficient data analysis algorithms. The lecture will discuss these problems. |