PHY529 Advanced Topics in General Relativity and Gravitational Waves
General Information
| Lecturer: |
Maria Haney (Y36 K34) Shubhanshu Tiwari (Y36 K34) |
| Assistant: | Dixeena Lopez (Y36 K32) |
| Lecture: | Thursday 10:15 - 12:00 (Y36 K08) |
| Exercises classes: | Thursday 12:15- 13:00 (Y36 K08) |
Lecture Information
Gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy has emerged as one of the most promising fields for probing fundamental physics, astrophysics and cosmology. This course aims to introduce the current state-of-the-art of the field to interested master and PhD students, outlining fundamental concepts of GW science and data analysis and their application in observations with the current generation of ground-based GW instruments. The goal of this course is to instigate interest and provide the (hands-on) knowledge required to delve into the current results in gravitational-wave astronomy.
Topics:
- Introduction: History of gravitational-wave astronomy
- Introduction: Observations of stellar-mass black holes and neutron stars
- Linearized gravity (a primer)
- Astrophysical sources of gravitational waves
- Source modeling of compact binary coalescence (CBC)
- Template-based searches and interpretation of CBC
- Data analysis of generic transients, stochastic GW background, continuous waves
- Current catalog of GW observations & science discoveries
- Future GW instruments and data analysis challenges