6–8 May 2019
University of Pittsburgh
US/Eastern timezone

Searching for Exotic(Dark) Compact Objects with Gravitational Waves from Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals and EM Counterparts

7 May 2019, 17:00
15m
205 (Lawrence Hall)

205

Lawrence Hall

parallel talk DM IV

Speaker

Dr Huaike Guo (University of Oklahoma)

Description

Exotic compact objects such as primordial black holes, boson star, etc., are theoretically predicted to exist and can make interesting dark matter candidates,
yet with no definitive observational evidence for their existence. This talk will
discuss the method of using gravitational waves from the extreme mass ratio inspiral, formed by an ECO and a supermassive black hole in the center of each galaxy as a probe of the ECOs. The corresponding gravitational waves can be detected by future space-based interferometer gravitational wave detectors and
the mass of the ECO can be determined very precisely. Aside from gravitational wave signals, possible electromagnetic counterparts for some ECOs, like boson stars, will be discussed.

Author

Huaike Guo (University of Oklahoma)

Presentation materials