Hamburg 2016 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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GR: Fachverband Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie

GR 16: Gravitational Waves

GR 16.1: Vortrag

Freitag, 4. März 2016, 08:45–09:05, VMP6 HS A

Black-hole Physics with Advanced Gravitational-Wave detectors — •Frank Ohme — School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University, United Kingdowm

September 2015 marked the birth of a new era of gravitational-wave astronomy as the Advanced LIGO interferometers started their operation after a major upgrade. One of the most promising sources of the detector network is the coalescence of black-hole binaries. In this talk, I will highlight some of the prospects and limitations in measuring the parameters of such systems with gravitational-wave observations, and I will show how limited information extracted from few (or even no) detections can place interesting bounds on binary formation predictions made by state-of-the-art population synthesis models.