Focus on black holes
The December 2020 issue of the Aveiro University magazine "Linhas UA" includes a feature article covering work at Gr@v and the mysteries of black holes. Check this issue here.
Astrophysics News & Events
SKA: how to detect the universe's faintest signals
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Sonia Antón (UA)
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Discussion of the paper "Evolution of binary black-hole spacetimes" by F. Pretorius
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Nicolás Sanchis Gual (IST and UA)
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Evolution of binary black-hole spacetimes
F. Pretorius
Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 (2005) 121101
Spin-induced scalarized black holes in Phys. Rev. Lett.
Can a black hole be different from the Kerr paradigm depending on its spin? In paper to publishd in Physical Review Letters, Gr@v members C. Herdeiro and E. Radu, in collaboration with H. Silva and N. Yunes (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaigne, US) and T. Sotirou (U. Nottingham, UK), show that the phenomenon of spontaneous scalarisation can lead to non-Kerr black holes, only if they spin fast enough.
OJ 287: Potential Rosetta stone for the nascent multi-messenger nano-Hz GW astronomy
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Lankeswar Dey
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Abstract: The bright blazar OJ 287 is the best-known candidate for hosting a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) in the present observable universe.
2020 SR&TD FCT Projects
The 2020 FCT call for Scientific Research & Technological Development projects had 5847 applications, of which 3317 were considered eligible and 312 recommended for funding. In the Physical Sciences panel there were 139 applications; Gr@v's project, led by C.Herdeiro, a synergy between the different expertise of the group (strong gravity, astrophysics and high energy physics) was ranked first.
Pedro Cunha selected for an FCT 6 years junior research grant
Pedro Cunha was one of the 7 selected researchers for a junior grant, nationwide, within 76 applicants in the Physical Sciences panel, in the third individual call for scientific employment stimulus, promoted by FCT. Pedro (re)joined our group as a post-doc in October 2020, after being a post-doctoral researcher at the Max Planck institute for gravitational physics in Golm, Germany. Congratulations Pedro!
New Gr@v research students
Four new research students have joined Gr@v this fall: Jenzhi Yang, Ivo Sengo, Vasileios Vatellis and João Pino. Welcome!
Nico Sanchis-Gual joins Gr@v
Nicolas Sanchis-Gual, the only member of the LIGO-Virgo-Kagra collaboration working in Portugal, officially joined Gr@v and our research unit CIDMA. After his Ph.D. from the University of Valencia, Nico worked as a postdoctoral researcher at CENTRA-IST. He is an expert on Numerical Relativity and Gravitational Waves from dynamical binaries. Welcome Nico!
Talk on the 2020 Nobel Physics Prize
Watch here a talk on the 2020 Nobel Physics Prize given by C. Herdeiro at the invitation of the Centre for Theoretical and Computational Physics of the University of Lisbon.