Speaker
Floor Broekgaarden
(Simons Foundation | Columbia | Johns Hopkins)
Description
In this talk I will discuss the challenges and prospects of Gravitational-wave Paleontology: studying massive stars from their `remnants’ as compact object coalescences, with the goal to answer the key questions in gravitational-wave astronomy today: What can we learn from these gravitational-wave sources about the formation, lives, and explosive deaths of massive stars across cosmic time? How do we unravel the gravitational-wave formation channels? I will discuss open challenges in gravitational waves including the “Uncertainty Challenge” and give an overview of current efforts in the field to overcome this.
