Prof. Shuxu Yi (IHEP)

Gravitational wave Universe toolbox

As the importance of gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics increases rapidly, astronomers interested in GWs who are not experts in this field sometimes need to get a quick idea of what GW sources can be detected by certain detectors, and the accuracy of the measured parameters.

The GW-Toolbox is a set of easy-to-use, flexible tools to simulate observations of the GW universe with different detectors, including ground-based interferometers (advanced LIGO, advanced VIRGO, KAGRA, Einstein Telescope, Cosmic Explorer, and also customised interferometers), space-borne interferometers (LISA and a customised design), and pulsar timing arrays mimicking the current working arrays (EPTA, PPTA, NANOGrav, IPTA) and future ones. We include a broad range of sources, such as mergers of stellar-mass compact objects, namely black holes, neutron stars, and black hole-neutron star binaries, supermassive black hole binary mergers and inspirals, Galactic double white dwarfs in ultra-compact orbit, extreme-mass-ratio inspirals, and stochastic GW backgrounds.

In this talk, I will give a throughout overview of the toolbox, including its functionalities and methodology. I will also present two recent scientific application work done with the toolbox, namely the study on the future prospects of GW astronomy on binary black hole population and sub-threshold joint observation on binary neutron star mergers as GW sources and gamma-ray bursts. [link]

Place: https://zoom.us/j/87037404550?pwd=UUtwQjQwTXNpaS9ObVJEQ3dJc2Yxdz09 Meeting ID: 870 3740 4550 Passcode: 299788

Time: Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 3:30PM to Thursday, October 13, 2022 - 4:30PM