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ECAP Seminar: Jochen Greiner

December 13, 2017 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

The gravitational wave detection of a binary neutron star merger: expectations, surprises, and prospects

On August 17, 2017, Advanced LIGO & Virgo detected gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger. A short-duration gamma-ray burst was detected in temporal coincidence by the INTEGRAL and Fermi satellites. A few hours later, an optical/NIR transient was found which turned out to be compatible with the predictions of a kilonova, powered by the radioactive decay of heavy r-process nuclei produced in the merger. I will give an overview of the observational results of this event which will go down in history as the start of multi-messenger gravitational wave astronomy. I will contrast the original expectations with the actual findings, and will spend most of the time on the mismatches, i.e. the new questions which emerged.

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December 13, 2017
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12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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ECAP, room 307
Erwin-Rommel-Str 1
Erlangen, 91058 Germany
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