Speaker
Dan Stinebring
(Oberlin College)
Description
The North American Nanohertz Observatory for
Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) has recently released its
12.5 year data set. I will summarize the GW results and their
implications for limits on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries
through hierarchical galaxy merging. These limits are starting
to substantially constrain models for SMBHB. We anticipate
detection of the stochastic background of GWs from these
sources within the next 3 - 7 years.
