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Speaker: Dong Lai (Cornell)
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Title: Dynamical Formation of Merging Compact Binaries
Abstract:
The recent breakthrough in the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from merging black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) binaries by advanced LIGO/Virgo has generated renewed interest in understanding the formation mechanisms of merging compact binaries, from the evolution of massive stellar binaries and triples in the galactic fields, dynamical interactions in dense star clusters to binary mergers in AGN disks. I will discuss different aspects of the dynamical formation channels (focusing on tertiary-induced mergers and AGN disks), and discuss how observations of spin-orbit misalignments, eccentricities, masses and mass ratios in a sample of merging binaries by aLIGO can constrain these formation channels. I will also discuss some novel three-body dynamical effects related to merging binaries.
Visitor's room: 105A
Visit Schedule:
Visit Schedule:
Monday (note: this speaker is visiting Monday instead of the usual Wednesday) :
9:30 a.m.: Ashley Chontos (103)
10:00 a.m: Akash Gupta (110)
10:30 a.m.: Astro-Coffee (GC)
11:00 a.m.: Eliot (127)
11:30 a.m.: Shaunak Modak (visitor's room 105A)
12:00 p.m.: Dongzi
12:30 p.m.: Lunch / Munch
1:00 p.m.: Lunch / Munch
2:00 p.m.: Jeremy Goodman
2:30 p.m.: Yubo Su (visitor's room 105A)
3:00 p.m.: Masayuki Inai (visitor's room 105A)
3:30 p.m.: Linhao Ma
4:00 p.m. Caleb Lammers (visitor's room 105A)
4:30 pm.: Mila Winter (visitor's room 105A)
5:00 pm.: Uddipan Banik (visitor's room 105A)
Josh Winn will bring Dong to dinner, leaving shortly after 6pm.
Dinner Sign-up - add your name here:
Dinner Sign-up - add your name here:
Day of week (16 Sept. 2024) (note: this dinner is on Monday instead of the usual Wednesday).
This will be a joint PU/IAS dinner. There are 5 spaces from Princeton. Sign up using the following link:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1IXJIbmzUg5ap6unX-WbEsKkrqwGA35rujkGtjX80-Is/edit?gid=0#gid=0
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