Strong Gravity News & Events
Superradiant instabilities and the QCD axion
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João Rosa
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GAP room
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Scattering and plunging trajectories in Schwarzschild spacetime
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Seth Hopper (CENTRA - IST)
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GAP room
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Abstract: The recent LIGO detections of merging black holes represent the culmination of decades of research into gravitational waves (GWs). One well-known seminal work by Peters and Mathews predicted the GW luminosity of eccentric binaries to leading post-Newtonian (PN) order. Driven largely by the desire to detect GWs from inspirals, the Peters-Mathews work has subsequently been extended through 3.5PN. Less well-known is work by Taylor, which is directly analogous to the Peters-Mathews result, except for scattering binaries. This work has only been extended by one PN order.
@ LIGO Livingston
Gr@v members Pedro Cunha and Carlos Herdeiro at the LIGO LIvingston Control Room, in the state of Louisiana, USA, during a visit to the site. More exciting news should be announced in the summer by the collaboration!
CQG+ article on Focus Issue
Read the CQG+ viewpoint article on "Can Astrophysical Black Holes have hair", by Gr@v members C. Herdeiro and E. Radu, on the recently published Classical and Quantum Gravity Focus issue wherein they were guest editors.
StronGBaD at Ole Miss
Gr@v members P. Cunha and C. Herdeiro were amongst the participants of the StronGBaD workshop, at the University of Mississippi, USA.
Dynamics of scalar and vector boson stars
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Carlos Herdeiro and Nico Sanchis-Gual
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GAP room
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COST Action "Gravitational Waves, black holes and fundamental physics"
The COST Action 16104 on "Gravitational Waves, black holes and fundamental physics" has been approved within the EU Framework Program Horizon 2020. The action is led by Prof. Vitor Cardoso and our group participated in the network of proposers. C. Herdeiro is a member of the management committee.
Interview to Porto Canal
For the second time C. Herdeiro was the guest interviewee of Porto Canal's "Mentes que Brilham". Watch and listen to the conversation (from minute 18 onwards) (Watch and listen to the first interview) with interviewer Cláudia Fonseca about black holes and some of the research work made at Gr@v in this area.