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24th Australian Institute of Physics Congress

11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

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The cautious tale of GW200129: mimicking binary black-hole spin-precession with detector noise

12 Dec 2022, 14:00
15m
Room R2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room R2

Adelaide Convention Centre
Talk (preferred) AIP: Relativity and Gravitation AIP: Relativity and Gravitation

Speaker

Mr Ethan Payne (California Institute of Technology)

Description

The gravitational-wave observation of GW200129 hinted at the presence of spin-precession - an important observation for understanding black-hole binary formation. We discuss how this observation may instead be attributed to noise transients in the gravitational-wave detectors.

Author

Mr Ethan Payne (California Institute of Technology)

Presentation materials

GW200129 AIP Presentation.pdf
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