December 27, 2018

Tal Alexander Meeting 2019

Gravitational Waves From The Capture of Compact Objects And Observations Of The Galactic Centre

TOPIC

ASTROPHYSICS, GENERAL RELATIVITY, AND OBSERVATIONAL ASTRONOMY OF THE GALACTIC CENTRE

from/for/aiming at understanding the capture of compact objects by massive black holes.

Organised by Pau Amaro-Seoane, Leor Barack, Vítor Cardoso, Wlodek Kluzniak, Harald Pfeiffer and Xian Chen, at the posadas de Alájar and San Marcos, in Alájar, to be pronounced phonetically [ a ‘la xar ], Andalusia, from Aug 25 – Sep 4 2019.

DESCRIPTION

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will look for GW signals in the low-frequency band (0.1 mHz – 1 Hz). We will focus on the capture of small compact objects by supermassive black holes, and on observations of our Galactic Centre, a proxy in a sense. Considering the possible existence of intermediate-mass black holes, an additional source of gravitational waves for LISA will the inspiral of stellar-mass compact objects into an IMBH or the inspiral of an IMBH into a MBH. These sources, again due to the mass ratio of the binaries, are known as an intermediate-mass ratio inspirals (IMRIs).

PARTICIPANTS

Pau Amaro Seoane, Stamatis Vretinaris, Sambaran Banerjee, Verónica Vazquez Aceves, Pablo Laguna, Harald Pfeiffer, Wlodek Kluzniak, Deirdre Shoemaker, Banafsheh Shahzamanian, Angela Gardini, Xian Chen, Elisa Bortolas, Nikolaos Chatzarakis, Alejandro Torres Orjuela, Iraitz Gorroño Bikandi, Gihyuk Cho

PICS


(Time lapse of Alájar by Harald Pfeiffer, 2019.)

We acknowledge support from COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action CA16104 GWverse.