Скачать или смотреть Plenary Lecture of Prof. David SHOEMAKER at MG15 - Rome, July 2018

TALK: LIGO's past and future observations of Black Hole and Neutron Star Binaries

ABSTRACT: The LIGO instruments made the first observation of gravitational-wave strain as a function of time just shortly after the last Marcel Grossman meeting in 2015. Since that time a number of other black-hole binaries have been observed, bringing an unexpected class of stellar-mass black holes into our vision of the cosmos. More recently, in 2017, LIGO and Virgo together observed a neutron star binary, with a very fortunate set of conditions allowing a deep and broad electromagnetic followup. This talk with give some insights to the experimental and observational side of the story, and also give a roadmap for LIGO's future.