Challenges in gravitational wave astronomy
Event Start:
2019-09-19T14:00:00
Event End:
2019-09-19T15:00:00
Event Information:
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are currently in the middle of their third observing run, and releasing open public event alerts for the first time. The LIGO-Virgo collaboration has issued 28 un-retracted candidate event alerts as of September 11th, 2019, potentially adding dozens more known compact binary object mergers to the eleven confident detections from the first two Advanced-era observing runs. I'll give an overview of the process of detecting, characterizing, and assessing the significance of gravitational wave signals registered in Advanced LIGO data.
Event Location:
TRIUMF Auditorium
Speaker:
Jessica McIver (UBC)
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Event Start:
2019-09-19T14:00:00
Event End:
2019-09-19T15:00:00
Challenges in gravitational wave astronomy
Event Information:
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are currently in the middle of their third observing run, and releasing open public event alerts for the first time. The LIGO-Virgo collaboration has issued 28 un-retracted candidate event alerts as of September 11th, 2019, potentially adding dozens more known compact binary object mergers to the eleven confident detections from the first two Advanced-era observing runs. I'll give an overview of the process of detecting, characterizing, and assessing the significance of gravitational wave signals registered in Advanced LIGO data.
Event Location:
TRIUMF Auditorium