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Gravitational Physics
Gravity Seminar: Machine learning for gravitational wave parameter estimation: towards waveform systematics, Sama Al-Shammari, Cardiff University, U.K.
ZoomWhen performing parameter estimation for gravitational-wave (GW) data, Bayesian techniques provide a powerful framework to describe said parameters. These techniques are consistent with both our prior [...]
Gravity Seminar: Free hyperboloidal evolutions: current numerical efforts, Alex Vañó Viñuales, Instituto Superior Técnico (CENTRA), Lisbon, Portugal
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AGravitational wave radiation is only unambiguously defined at future null infinity - the location in spacetime where light rays arrive and where global properties of [...]
Defensa de tesi doctoral: Searching for long-duration transient gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars.
Doctoranda: Luana Michela Modafferi Títol: Searching for long-duration transient gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars. Directors: Dr. David Benjamin Keitel i Dra. Alicia Magdalena Sintes Olives Programa [...]
Gravity Seminar: Neutrino transport in neutron star mergers simulations, Manuel Rodríguez Izquierdo, UIB
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AAccurate modeling of neutrino transport plays a crucial role in understanding astrophysical phenomena such as core-collapse supernovae and neutron star mergers. This talk will review [...]
Gravity Seminar: Continuous gravitational waves: looking for a tiny signal in a sea of noise, Lorenzo Mirasola, University of Cagliari, Italy
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AAlthough the gravitational wave signal emitted by the merging of compact objects, such as black holes or neutron stars, has almost become “normal”, we are [...]
Gravity Seminar: Moving towards the analysis of gravitational-wave data in the next-generation detector era, Justin Janquart, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2ASince 2015, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration has been detecting and analyzing gravitational-wave signals, with about 90 observations of compact binary coalescence signals after the third-observing runs. [...]
Gravity Seminar: Exploring the Impact of Wave Effects in the Lensing of Gravitational Waves from Chirping Binaries, Anuj Mishra, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pune, India
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB Aula 03BWith increasing sensitivities of the current ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, the prospects of detecting a gravitationally lensed GW signal are going to improve in [...]
Gravity Seminar: An overview of gravitational waveforms beyond general relativity, Laura Bernard, Observatoire de Paris, France
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB Aula 03BThe analytical modelling of gravitational waves in general relativity has been one of the key element to allow the numerous detections by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration. [...]
Gravity Seminar: Investigating mysteries in modern physics with gravitational waves, Helvi Witek, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AThe detection of 90+ gravitational wave signals produced by coalescing black holes or neutron stars have opened up a rich discovery space for astrophysics, gravitation, [...]
Gravity Seminar: Dynamics in UV extensions of k-essence and scalar Gauss-Bonnet theory, Guillermo Lara, Albert Einstein Institute, Potsdam, Germany
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AIn recent years there has been an increased interest in modelling the nonlinear dynamics in theories beyond general relativity. Recent work by different groups has [...]
Gravity Seminar: Two types of nuclear transients – tidal disruption events and disruptive collisions, Taeho Ryu, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB AULA 2AGalactic nuclei are extreme environments where stars are densely packed around a supermassive black hole (SMBH). Occasionally, dynamical interactions in the galactic center lead the [...]
Gravity Seminar: Black hole perturbations and phase-amplitude methods, Hector Okada da Silva, AEI Potsdam, Germany
Edifici Antoni Maria Alcover, UIB Aula 03BThe inference of quasinormal modes frequencies from the ringdown part of gravitational-wave signals produced by the coalescence of black hole binaries can be used to [...]
Pas endavant per fer realitat el primer observatori espacial d’ones gravitacionals, amb participació de la UIB
Els investigadors de la Universitat de les Illes Balears que participen en la missió espacial europea LISA atendran els mitjans de comunicació per explicar els [...]
Invited Lecture: “Escuchando al Universo, últimos avances con las ondas gravitacionales”
Agrupación Astronómica de SabadellAlicia Sintes impartirá el 31 de enero de 2024 a las 19:00 en la Agrupación Astronómica de Sabadell una conferencia titulada: Escuchando al Universo, últimos [...]
Gravity Seminar: Gravitational waves and multi-messenger astronomy, Neha Singh, UIB
Aula 5b, Antoni Maria Alcover i Sureda, UIB , SpainThe growing number of gravitational wave detections in recent years has established Gravitational waves astronomy as a strong contributor to multi messenger astronomy. In this [...]
PhD seminar: Ángel Garrón, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Improved analysis of gravitationally lensed gravitational waves
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainThe sensitivity of gravitational waves detectors keeps improving and we should expect to find gravitationally lensed gravitational waves soon. Since the number of detections is [...]
PhD seminar: Joan René Mérou Mestre, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — All-sky searching for continuous gravitational-wave signals from unknown neutron stars in binary systems in the O4a run data
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainRapidly spinning, non-axisymmetric neutron stars (NSs) are expected to emit continuous gravitational waves (CWs). Detecting such signals would significantly improve our understanding of the galactic [...]
PhD Seminar: Maria de Lluc Planas Llompart, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Towards building a phenomenological aligned spin eccentric model: PhenomTEHM
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainThe increase in sensitivity and detector upgrades planned in the coming years will challenge existing waveform models and demand considerable improvements in accuracy, parameter space [...]
PhD Seminar: Maria Rosselló Sastre, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Modeling the full (l=2, m=0) spherical harmonic: memory effect and ringdown oscillations
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainThe current phenomenological waveform models for binary black hole mergers do not include the (l=2, m=0) spherical harmonic, which is the only mode with l=2 [...]
PhD Seminar: Joan Llobera Querol, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Aligning and Constructing Hybrid Waveforms for Precessing Binaries
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainPrecessing binaries exhibit complex dynamics that significantly modulate the emitted gravitational waveform. Describing such systems is challenging due to the lack of a canonical choice [...]
Gravity Seminar: Rita Santos, Support Scientist UIB – Characteristic Critical Collapse with Null Infinity
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainSolutions to the Einstein Equations that are close to the threshold of black hole formation exhibit features that resemble critical phenomena in statistical mechanics. We [...]
PhD Seminar: Jorge Valencia Gómez, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Mind the step: On the frequency-domain analysis of gravitational-wave memory waveforms
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainGravitational wave memory is characterized by a signal component that persists after a transient signal has decayed. Treating such signals in the frequency domain is [...]
PhD Seminar: Jesús Yébana Carrilero, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Bridging the gap between extreme and comparable mass ratios in black-hole binaries
Aula 4, The Complexe, ParcBit , SpainState-of-the-art gravitational waveform models need input from many frameworks tackling the relativistic two-body problem. Among them are the gravitational self-force approach, which was designed to [...]
PhD Seminar: Llorenç Melis, Estudiant del Programa de Doctorat de Física — Surface waves and KHi in a prominence-corona interface: effect of the ambipolar diffusion
There are a wide variety of phenomena in solar prominences, such as waves, instabilities or mass flows. Observations have shown the ubiquitous presence of MHD [...]