5 Years of Gravitational Wave Astronomy
APA
(2021). 5 Years of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research. https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/2522
MLA
5 Years of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research, Apr. 07, 2021, https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/2522
BibTex
@misc{ scivideos_SAIFR:2522,
doi = {},
url = {https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/2522},
author = {},
keywords = {ICTP-SAIFR, IFT, UNESP},
language = {en},
title = {5 Years of Gravitational Wave Astronomy},
publisher = { ICTP South American Institute for Fundamental Research},
year = {2021},
month = {apr},
note = {SAIFR:2522 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/ictp-saifr/2522}}
}
Abstract
The first direct detection of gravitational waves was announced 5 years ago (about 1 graduate student generation). The LIGO and Virgo Collaboration (which now includes KAGRA too) has recently updated their catalog of merging binaries of black holes and neutron stars: the catalog now contains a total of 50 events.In this talk I will give an overview of what gravitational waves are and how we observe them. I will discuss the discoveries made over the past 5 years and how they help us learn about fundamental physics (tests of relativity; state of dense matter), astrophysics (origin of neutron star and black hole binaries; origin of certain elements), and cosmology.