February 9th
when: Tuesday 9/2/2021, 12:30 (seminar starts at 12:45)
where: Zoom meeting!
speaker: Tanja Hinderer
Title: Probing subatomic physics with gravitational waves from neutron star binary inspirals
abstract:
he gravitational waves from merging neutron star binary systems carry unique information about their internal structure from the interplay of matter with dynamical gravity. This opens new opportunities for advancing our understanding of matter and fundamental interactions. I will discuss examples of the imprints of neutron star matter on the gravitational wave signals during the relatively clean, cumulative inspiral epoch from different kinds of tidal effects. I will summarize what we have learned from recent measurements and conclude with an outlook onto the remaining challenges and exciting prospects for the next years as gravitational-wave science continues to move towards an era of precision physics.