Speaker
Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella
(University of California Santa Barbara)
Description
Gravitational-wave astronomy has transitioned from a era of first discoveries to a high-throughput discipline, providing an unprecedented look at the population of merging compact objects like black holes and neutron stars. I will highlight recent advances in gravitational-wave searches that exploit the richer signal structure predicted by General Relativity to significantly boost the overall detection sensitivity for these rare systems, with the largest gains for binaries with unequal masses and tilted orbits. I will then discuss what the larger catalogs reveal about the distributions and assembly histories of merging compact objects, and how these observations constrain their broader astrophysical and cosmological contexts.
Primary author
Tejaswi Venumadhav Nerella
(University of California Santa Barbara)
