General relativity and extreme-mass-ratio binaries
2019-05-10
12:15
CSIC
Sala Alberto Lobo (ICE building, UAB Campus)
In this talk, I will give a broad and largely non-technical overview of general relativity and strong gravitational two-body systems, from the status of their theoretical modeling to their observation via gravitational waves.
I will focus on the problem of modeling binaries with extreme mass ratios, an ongoing effort among theorists today with which our group is actively involved, and which is needed for their future observation, promising unique astrophysical information, with planned space-based gravitational wave detectors such as LISA.