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Session K15: Numerical Relativity: Binary Black Hole Merger Outcomes

1:30 PM–3:18 PM, Sunday, April 17, 2016
Room: 251C

Sponsoring Unit: GGR
Chair: Yosef Zlochower, Rochester Institute of Technology

Abstract ID: BAPS.2016.APR.K15.9

Abstract: K15.00009 : Learning from Future Gravitational Wave Detections: Modeling and Radiated Quantities

3:06 PM–3:18 PM

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Authors:

Lionel London
(Cardiff University)

Frank Ohme
(Cardiff University)

Sebastian Khan
(Cardiff University)

Alex Vano-Vinuales
(Cardiff University)

Chinmay Kalaghatgi
(Cardiff University)

Sascha Husa
(Balearic Islands University)

Nathan Johnson-McDaniel
(International Centre for Theoretical Sciences)

Future gravitational wave detections will enable us to directly learn which binary black hole populations are astrophysically relevant. In turn, increased knowledge of these populations allows us to perform targeted modeling studies that enable the inference of bulk features, such as radiated energy and peak luminosity. In this talk I will present strategies to followup future detections with targeted modeling studies. As an example of utility, I will discuss the inference of radiated energy and peak luminosity of binary black hole mergers.

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