Astronomy and Astrophysics Seminars
The promise of gravitational-wave astrophysics
by Prof. Ilya Mandel (Monash University)
Tuesday, September 15, 2020
from
to
(Asia/Kolkata)
at Zoom: ( https://zoom.us/j/94689633332?pwd=VFkyZDJtQ21jNWtBd3UycG5MQnNGdz09 )
at Zoom: ( https://zoom.us/j/94689633332?pwd=VFkyZDJtQ21jNWtBd3UycG5MQnNGdz09 )
Meeting ID: 946 8963 3332
Passcode: 218234
Description |
The first detections of gravitational waves from compact-object mergers have opened up new opportunities and challenges in astrophysics. I will survey the plausible formation scenarios for merging compact-object binaries. I will then describe ongoing efforts to extract the astrophysical evolution of massive stellar binaries from observations of gravitational waves emitted during mergers of the stellar remnants. |