| 28th of June 2017 |
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| ATNF Colloquium |
| Gravitational-wave astronomy in the age of multiple detections |
| by Paul Lasky (Monash University) |
| Abstract.
Advanced LIGO has now observed three bona fide gravitational-wave
events from the mergers of stellar-mass black holes. In the coming
years, this number will grow significantly. I will describe some of
the many things we can do with these future observations, including
performing fundamental tests of general relativity, understanding the
formation mechanism of binary black holes, and measuring permanent
deformations of space-time.
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