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Neutron stars in screened modified gravity

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Alexandru Dima (SISSA, Trieste)
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Screened modified gravity is inherently elusive: screening mechanisms suppress the propagation of additional gravitational degrees of freedom in typical astrophysical scenarios, allowing these theories to avoid constraints coming from weak field observations.

Gravitational Wave Observations of Black Hole and Neutron Star Mergers

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Prof. Stephen Fairhurst (Cardiff University)
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online (only)
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Following the first observation of gravitational waves from merging black holes in 2015, we have now observed gravitational wave signals from over 50 binary mergers.  In this talk, I will review the most recent observations from the first half of the third LIGO and Virgo observing run.  I will highlight some of the most novel events and will discuss the impacts of these observ

Searching for ultralight bosons with black holes and gravitational waves: a status update

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Richard Brito (Sapienza University of Rome)
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online (only)
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Ultralight bosonic fields are compelling dark-matter candidates and arise in a variety of beyond-Standard-Model scenarios. These fields can tap energy and angular momentum from spinning black holes through superradiant instabilities, during which a macroscopic bosonic condensate develops around the black hole.