PIRSA:19100057

Challenges in gravitational wave astronomy

McIver, J. (2019). Challenges in gravitational wave astronomy. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/19100057

McIver, Jess. Challenges in gravitational wave astronomy. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 03, 2019, https://pirsa.org/19100057 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:19100057,
            doi = {10.48660/19100057},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/19100057},
            author = {McIver, Jess},
            keywords = {Strong Gravity},
            language = {en},
            title = {Challenges in gravitational wave astronomy},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2019},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:19100057 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Jess McIver University of British Columbia

DOI 10.48660/19100057
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Talk Type Scientific Series
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Abstract

Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are currently in the middle of their third observing run, and releasing open public event alerts for the first time. The LIGO-Virgo collaboration has issued 29 un-retracted candidate event alerts as of September 20th, 2019, potentially adding dozens more known compact binary object mergers to the eleven confident LIGO-Virgo detections from the first two Advanced-era observing runs. I’ll review novel LIGO-Virgo results to date, and discuss the challenges of extracting interesting new physics from noisy detector data. Finally, I'll summarize future prospects for astrophysics, cosmology, and tests of general relativity with gravitational waves, and the roadmap to future gravitational wave detectors on Earth and in space.