PIRSA:14110088

Advanced LIGO status and prospects to probe the strong gravity regime

APA

Gonzalez, G. (2014). Advanced LIGO status and prospects to probe the strong gravity regime. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics. https://pirsa.org/14110088

MLA

Gonzalez, Gabriela. Advanced LIGO status and prospects to probe the strong gravity regime. Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Nov. 12, 2014, https://pirsa.org/14110088

BibTex

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:14110088,
            doi = {10.48660/14110088},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/14110088},
            author = {Gonzalez, Gabriela},
            keywords = {Strong Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Advanced LIGO status and prospects to probe the strong gravity regime},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2014},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:14110088 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/14110088}}
          }
          

Gabriela Gonzalez Louisiana State University

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Abstract

Gravitational waves will allow scientists to test Einstein?s theory of General Relativity in the previously unexplored strong-field regime. Einstein?s theory of general relativity, as the most accepted theory of gravity, has been greatly constrained in the quasi-linear, quasi-stationary regime, where gravity is weak and velocities are small. Gravitational waves may carry information about highly dynamical and strong-field gravity that is required to generate measurable waves. Coalescing compact binaries are the most promising sources of gravitational waves accessible to ground-based interferometers, such as Advanced LIGO. Made of neutron stars and/or black holes that orbit each other hundreds of times a second just before they collide, the resulting waves are imprinted with information about the individual objects and the dynamical coalescence process. After reviewing the basic properties of gravitational waves, I will present an overview of the detector design and provide an update on the current status of Advanced LIGO and its ability to probe the strong gravity regime.