Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2006 APS April Meeting
Saturday–Tuesday, April 22–25, 2006; Dallas, TX
Session P4: Gravitational Wave Sources and Phenomenology |
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Sponsoring Units: GGR DAP Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisianna State University Room: Hyatt Regency Dallas Marsalis A |
Monday, April 24, 2006 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
P4.00001: Overview of LISA Science Invited Speaker: |
Monday, April 24, 2006 11:21AM - 11:57AM |
P4.00002: Source-modeling, detection and science of gravitational waves from compact binaries Invited Speaker: Compact binaries made of black holes and/or neutron stars are the most promising sources for laser-interferometer gravitational-wave detectors on the earth. In this talk I will review the analytical approximation schemes and the template families developed to catch the tiny waves buried in the detector noise and extract astrophysical information from them. [Preview Abstract] |
Monday, April 24, 2006 11:57AM - 12:33PM |
P4.00003: Gravitational Radiation from Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Invited Speaker: Stellar-mass black holes (up to approximately 20 solar masses) and supermassive black holes (millions to billions of solar masses) have been well-established for many years. More recently, X-ray observations have strongly suggested the existence of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in the hundreds to thousands of solar masses. Candidate IMBHs are often associated with dense young stellar clusters, and may represent the present-day counterparts to the earliest stellar black holes at redshifts up to roughly 20. Gravitational waves from mergers of IMBHs with themselves or with supermassive black holes would be visible to these high redshifts, and could carry unique information about star formation and the hierarchical assembly of structure as well as producing high-signal extreme mass ratio inspiral events that test strong-gravity predictions of general relativity. We will discuss the astrophysical context of gravitational radiation from IMBHs and the prospects for detection with future ground-based and space-based instruments. [Preview Abstract] |
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