Join us on Thursday, October 23rd at 3:30PM for another installment of our Fall Colloquium Series!

 

Dr. Michael Coughlin will be visiting from the University of Minnesota and will present his talk titled "The Present and Future of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy"

 

Abstract:

With the detection of compact binary coalescences and their electromagnetic counterparts by gravitational-wave detectors, a new era of multi-messenger astronomy has begun. In this talk, I will describe how the gravitational-wave community is using these mergers to constrain the unknown equation of state of cold supranuclear matter, and to measure the Hubble constant. I will then discuss how current ground based optical surveys and dedicated follow-up systems are being used to identify more of these, and how we are developing models to test what we find. We will close with near-term prospects for the field. 

 

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