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Cosmic Collisions – Progress in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy Speaker: Patrick Brady (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) Abstract: The observation of mergers of black holes and neutron stars has established gravitational-wave astronomy as a powerful tool to understand the Universe. After a brief introduction to gravitational waves and how the detectors work, I will discuss the insights that have come from the events identified thus far by the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations. In particular, I will discuss merger rate estimates, what we know about the mass distributions of compact binary systems and what we have learned from multi-messenger observations of binary mergers. I will finish with a discussion of future observing runs and what we can expect over the next few years. Date: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 More videos on http://video.ias.edu
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