Spinning black-hole binaries as gravitational and cosmological probes

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:13060004,
            doi = {10.48660/13060004},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/13060004},
            author = {Barausse, Enrico},
            keywords = {Strong Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Spinning black-hole binaries as gravitational and cosmological probes},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2013},
            month = {jun},
            note = {PIRSA:13060004 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }
          

Abstract

Spins play a major role in the strong-field dynamics of
black-hole binaries and their gravitational-wave emission. By detecting spin
effects in the waveforms, existing and future gravitational-wave detectors
therefore provide a natural way to test gravity in strong-field, highly
dynamical regimes.

In the first part of my talk, I will show that the
inclusion of the spins in the gravitational templates for future space-based
detectors will permit testing scenarios for the formation and cosmological
evolution of supermassive black holes, and possibly shed light on models of
galaxy formation. In the second part, I will show that the effective-one-body
(EOB) model provides an efficient way to account for spin effects in both the
dynamics and waveforms, by combining information from post-Newtonian theory,
the self-force formalism, and numerical-relativity simulations.