Copernicus Webinar and Colloquium Series

Europe/Zurich
Description

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 125th Copernicus Webinars.

Time:               28th March, Tuesday, at 3 pm CEST (9 pm Beijing, 10pm JST, 9 am EDT)

Speaker:          Naritaka Ooshita (RIKEN, iTHEMS)

Title: Universal Nature of Black Hole Ringdown: Overtone Excitation and Graybody Factors

Abstract:

A gravitational wave from a binary black hole merger is an important probe to test gravity. Especially, the observation of ringdown may allow us to perform a robust test of gravity as it is a superposition of excited quasi-normal (QN) modes of a Kerr black hole. The excitation factor is an important quantity that quantifies the excitability of QN modes and is independent of the initial data of black hole mergers.

In this talk, I will show which QN modes can be important (i.e., have higher excitation factors) and will discuss how we can determine the start time of ringdown to maximally enhance the detectability of the QN modes.

Also, I will introduce my recent conjecture on the modeling of ringdown waveform: the thermal ringdown model in which the ringdown spectrum of a small mass ratio merger involving a massive and rapidly spinning black hole can be modeled by the graybody factor of the black hole, which is similar to the thermal Fermi-Dirac distribution.

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Zoom link:
https://zoom.us/j/4214801692?pwd=TGxVWHJudnI1S25FbXhERlVDMkN0dz09
Meeting ID: 421 480 1692
Passcode: cosmology
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