Dear Colleagues,
To promote scientific discussions during this pandemic, we are organizing an online seminar series, i.e. Copernicus Webinar Series, seeking the most outstanding speakers to introduce innovative ideas and important progress in the field of gravity and cosmology. This series is named after the famous Polish Astronomer, Nicolaus Copernicus, whose discovery eventually marked the dawn of modern science.
We would like to invite you to take part in the upcoming 119th Copernicus Webinars.
Time: 7th Feb., Tuesday, at 3pm CET, Krakow (10 pm Beijing, 11 pm JST, 9 am ET)
Speaker: Alice Garoffolo (Leiden University)
Title: Wave-optics limit of the stochastic gravitational-wave background
Abstract:
The stochastic gravitational waves background is a rich resource of cosmological information, encoded both in its source statistics and its anisotropies induced by propagation effects. During their journey, the gravitational waves constituting the stochastic background encounter cosmic structures, which are able to modify the observed signal. According to the ratio between the wavelength of the wave, and the matter overdensities typical length-scale, interference and diffraction effects may arise, possibly boosting the signal’s amplitude or inducing a non-trivial polarization pattern. In this talk I will present my results about the wave-optics limit of the stochastic gravitational wave background, and describe how we can use them to gain information about the matter content of the Universe.
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Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/4214801692?pwd=TGxVWHJudnI1S25FbXhERlVDMkN0dz09
Meeting ID: 421 480 1692
Passcode: cosmology
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