This time we'll have a special seminar from Lucas de Sá (USP).
Title: Modeling compact object mergers over redshift
Abstract: Binary population synthesis is a popular tool for exploiting data from current gravitational-wave detectors and predicting observations for future ones. From empirical star formation conditions and simple stellar/binary evolution models, synthesis codes allow realistic populations of merging compact binaries to be generated. While on one hand current data helps constrain the models, synthetic populations allow extrapolation to unobserved regions, including high redshift. I will introduce here a general framework for synthesizing high redshift populations and modeling the redshift evolution of the merger rate and component masses. When coupled to gravitational-wave modeling, this will allow for GW spectral synthesis over redshift and estimation of the correspondent component of the stochastic background.
Logistics:
Date: Monday 06/19 at 4 pm.
Location: IFT 3rd floor, room 3.
Remote connection: zoom link (password: jccosmo)