Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2017
Volume 62, Number 1
Saturday–Tuesday, January 28–31, 2017; Washington, DC
Session H14: Einstein Prize Talk and Advanced LIGO Search ResultsInvited Prize/Award Undergraduate
|
Hide Abstracts |
Sponsoring Units: DGRAV Chair: Emanuele Berti, University of Mississippi Room: Washington 1 |
Sunday, January 29, 2017 8:30AM - 9:06AM |
H14.00001: Black Holes, Thermodynamics, and Quantum Theory Invited Speaker: Robert Wald A black hole is a region of "no escape" that remains behind after a body has undergone complete gravitational collapse. It is truly remarkable that (i) black holes obey the ordinary laws of thermodynamics, (ii) the entropy of a black hole is given by a simple formula involving geometrical properties of its event horizon, and (iii) quantum theory plays an essential role in the thermodynamic properties of black holes. In this talk, I will review some of the key developments related to these properties of black holes, which fascinated me as a graduate student and continue to fascinate me now. [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, January 29, 2017 9:06AM - 9:42AM |
H14.00002: Searches for all types of binary mergers in the first Advanced LIGO observing run. Invited Speaker: Jocelyn Read The first observational run of the Advanced LIGO detectors covered September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016. In that time, two definitive observations of merging binary black hole systems were made. In particular, the second observation, GW151226, relied on matched-filter searches targeting merging binaries. These searches were also capable of detecting binary mergers from binary neutron stars and from black-hole/neutron-star binaries. In this talk, I will give an overview of LIGO compact binary coalescence searches, in particular focusing on systems that contain neutron stars. I will discuss the sensitive volumes of the first observing run, the astrophysical implications of detections and non-detections, and prospects for future observations [Preview Abstract] |
Sunday, January 29, 2017 9:42AM - 10:18AM |
H14.00003: Searching for the stochastic gravitational-wave background in Advanced LIGO's first observing run Invited Speaker: Patrick Meyers One of the most exciting prospects of gravitational-wave astrophysics and cosmology is the measurement of the stochastic gravitational-wave background. In this talk, we discuss the most recent searches for a stochastic background with Advanced LIGO—the first performed with advanced interferometric detectors. We search for an isotropic as well as an anisotropic background, and perform a directed search for persistent gravitational waves in three promising directions. Additionally, with the accumulation of more Advanced LIGO data and the anticipated addition of Advanced Virgo to the network in 2017, we can also start to consider what the recent gravitational-wave detections—GW150914 and GW151226—tell us about when we can expect a detection of the stochastic background from binary black hole coalescences. [Preview Abstract] |
Follow Us |
Engage
Become an APS Member |
My APS
Renew Membership |
Information for |
About APSThe American Physical Society (APS) is a non-profit membership organization working to advance the knowledge of physics. |
© 2024 American Physical Society
| All rights reserved | Terms of Use
| Contact Us
Headquarters
1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3844
(301) 209-3200
Editorial Office
100 Motor Pkwy, Suite 110, Hauppauge, NY 11788
(631) 591-4000
Office of Public Affairs
529 14th St NW, Suite 1050, Washington, D.C. 20045-2001
(202) 662-8700