New results from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA

New results from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA
Jess McIver, UBC
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Date and time: Tue, Nov 16, 2021 - 2:30pm
Location: Remote
Category: ACFI Seminar
Abstract:

In less than five years, the field of gravitational wave astronomy has grown from a groundbreaking first discovery to revealing new populations of stellar remnants through distant cosmic collisions. I'll summarize recent results from LIGO-Virgo and their wide-reaching implications, give an overview of the instrumentation of the current Advanced LIGO detectors, and discuss prospects for the future of multi-messenger astrophysics with gravitational wave detectors on Earth and in space.