March 20, 2016

Astro-GR@AEI 2008: Galactic Nuclei

TOPIC

ASTROPHYSICS, GENERAL RELATIVITY, DATA ANALYSIS

for gravitational wave sources from galactic nuclei (with the Galactic Centre itself as a reference, of course); this means EMRIs and bursts, IMRIs and stellar-mass binaries. This one was a two-weeks meeting, organised by Pau Amaro-Seoane.

PARTICIPANTS : 34

Tal Alexander, Pau Amaro-Seoane, Gaston Avila, Stas Babak, Leor Barack, Curt Cutler, Melvyn Davies, Orhan Donmez, Steve Drasco, Lee Samuel, Jon Gair, Iraj Gholami, A. Gopakumar, Clovis Hopman, Dong-Hoon Kim, Badri Krishnan, Yuri Levin, Claudio Llinares, Ilya Mandel, Cole Miller, Kristen Menou, Antoine Petiteau, Ed Porter, Sterl Phinney, Miguel Preto, Dirk Puetzfeld, Luciano Rezzolla, Alberto Sesana, Bernard Schutz, Yu Shang, Carlos Sopuerta, Jonathan Thornburg, Mauri Valtonen, John Whelan

SLIDES AND MOVIES OF THE TALKS


Miguel Preto: “On strong mass segregation around massive black holes” (no slides)

Tal Alexander: “Relaxation Processes Near MBHs” (slides)

Yuri Levin: “Discs of massive stars near black holes” (no slides)

Achamveedu Gopakumar: “GW phasing for eccentric binaries and its data analysis implications” (slides)

Melvyn B. Davies: “Hypervelocity stars” (slides)

Kristen Menou: “Electromagnetic Counterparts of Spacetime Sirens” (no slides)

Alberto Sesana: “EMRIs of WDs” (slides)

Eduardo Portero (aka Ed Porter): “Multi-modal nested sampling for binary inspirals” (slides)

In addition to these talks we also had a number of blackboard talks delivered by: Clovis Hopman (The stochastic gravitational wave background from star-MBH fly-bys), Pau Amaro-Seoane and Miguel Preto (Quo vadis, dynamics in the GC + numerical methods?), Melvyn B. Davies (The missing red giants), Badri Krishnan (Periodic gravitational waves from the galactic center), Stas Babak, Jon Gair and Eduardo Portero aka Ed Porter (Data analysis for EMRIs), Curt Cutler (Non-Gaussianity of LISA confusion noise), Jon Gair and Bernard Schutz (Testing Relativity with LISA), Ilya Mandel (Targeted Searches and Online LISA Data Analysis), Pau Amaro-Seoane (Closing Talk)