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Seminar
Speaker
Aditya Vijaykumar (ICTS-TIFR, Bengaluru)
Date & Time
Fri, 09 February 2024, 15:30 to 17:30
Venue
Feynman Lecture Hall & Online
Resources
Abstract

Gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy has opened a whole new window of looking at the Universe, and has revolutionized our understanding of compact binary sources that these waves arise from. In this seminar, I shall explore a few possibilities of probing gravity, cosmology, and astrophysics using observations of GWs from current and future detectors. This will include 1) developing a method to place constraints on the time variation of the gravitational constant G using the detected LIGO-Virgo binary neutron star (BNS) mergers, 2) asking whether a BNS merger near a supermassive black hole (SMBH).could enable a detection of the elusive post-merger signal, 3) investigating how well we can measure the imprint of centre-of-mass acceleration on a GW signal, and 4) develop a method to measure the large-scale two-point correlation function using GW observations in proposed next-generation detectors, accounting for localization uncertainties and realistic merger rates.

Zoom link: https://icts-res-in.zoom.us/j/91370107548?pwd=R2JxenNjNjJIeW9DS1kzbWhFQUxRZz09
Meeting ID: 913 7010 7548
Passcode: 090910