PIRSA:17110075

Inspiral Tests of Strong-field Gravity and Ringdown Tests of Quantum Black Holes

Yagi, K. (2017). Inspiral Tests of Strong-field Gravity and Ringdown Tests of Quantum Black Holes. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/17110075

Yagi, Kent. Inspiral Tests of Strong-field Gravity and Ringdown Tests of Quantum Black Holes. Perimeter Institute, Nov. 08, 2017, https://pirsa.org/17110075 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:17110075,
            doi = {10.48660/17110075},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/17110075},
            author = {Yagi, Kent},
            keywords = {Quantum Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Inspiral Tests of Strong-field Gravity and Ringdown Tests of Quantum Black Holes},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2017},
            month = {nov},
            note = {PIRSA:17110075 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Kent Yagi University of Virginia

DOI 10.48660/17110075
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Talk Type Conference
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Abstract

The binary black hole merger events recently discovered by the LIGO and Virgo Collaboration offer us excellent testbeds for exploring extreme (strong and dynamical-field) gravity that was previously inaccessible. In this talk, I will first explain the current status of probing fundamental pillars of General Relativity using the inspiral part of the gravitational waveform. I will next describe how well one can constrain one type of quantum black holes, collapsed polymers, with the GW150914 ringdown. I will conclude with a list of important open problems.