Gravity seminar - Rainer Weiss Seminar
- Time:
- 12:00
- Date:
- 4 October 2018
- Venue:
- 02 / 1085 (L/T C)
For more information regarding this seminar, please email Oscar Dias, Nils Andersson at O.J.Campos-Dias@soton.ac.uk, N.A.Andersson@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
Title: The beginnings of gravitational wave astronomy
Abstract: The first detection of gravitational waves was made in September 2015 with the measurement of the coalescence of two ~30 solar mass black holes at a distance of about 1 billion light years from Earth. The talk will provide a review of more recent measurements of black hole events as well as the first detection of the coalescence of two neutron stars and the beginning of multi-messenger astrophysics. The talk will end with a discussion of technical challenges and some prospects for the field.
Speaker information
Rainer Weiss, MIT.