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Session C5: The Future of Ground Based Gravitational Wave Detection

1:30 PM–3:18 PM, Saturday, April 16, 2016
Room: Ballroom D

Sponsoring Unit: GGR
Chair: Peter Shawhan, University of Maryland

Abstract ID: BAPS.2016.APR.C5.1

Abstract: C5.00001 : The future of ground based GW astrophysics

1:30 PM–2:06 PM

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Author:

Alessandra Corsi
(Texas Tech Univ)

With Advanced LIGO operational since September 2015, and with Virgo and KAGRA detectors expected to join forces in the coming years, a new observational era in ground-based gravitational wave astronomy is now beginning. Indeed, gravitational waves could open a totally new view of the transient sky, and shed new light on the engines powering some of the most energetic astrophysical events. In this talk, I will discuss recent results, open challenges, and prospects for the study of astrophysical gravitational wave transients, and the opportunities for multi-messenger astrophysics with gravitational waves enabled by the advanced gravitational wave detectors.

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