Gravitational wave Observation: Accomplishments to date, and looking forward

Document #:

LIGO-G1900708-v3

Document type:

G - Presentations (eg Graphics)

Abstract:

Gravitational-wave observation has moved from a demonstration of the principle, in September 2015, to a young but promising discipline; a total of 10 binary black hole coalescences have now been confirmed, and one quite spectacular multi-messenger observation of a binary neutron star in August 2017. An overview of the detection approach and the results to date will be given, followed by a vision for the future development of the field.

Files in Document:

• Brown 2019-04-01.pptx (531.6 MB)

Topics:

• Public Talk / Colloquium
• Astrophysics / Multi-messenger
• Detector

Authors:

• David Shoemaker