PIRSA:16100061

Gravitational Waves: The Birth of a New Area of Astronomy

Nuttall, L. (2016). Gravitational Waves: The Birth of a New Area of Astronomy. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/16100061

Nuttall, Laura. Gravitational Waves: The Birth of a New Area of Astronomy. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 20, 2016, https://pirsa.org/16100061 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:16100061,
            doi = {10.48660/16100061},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/16100061},
            author = {Nuttall, Laura},
            keywords = {Strong Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Gravitational Waves: The Birth of a New Area of Astronomy},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2016},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:16100061 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Laura Nuttall

Syracuse University

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On September 14th and December 26th, 2015, the Advanced LIGO detectors observed two gravitational wave signals, each from the merger of stellar-mass black holes. These two observations have given us the first glimpse in to the population of stellar mass black holes. In this talk I will discuss these first detections of gravitational waves including the non-detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron star and neutron star black holes systems. I will also describe the LIGO interferometers, their current state and the future of this exciting new field of gravitational-wave astronomy.