GW170817

October 18, 2017
11:30am to 12:30pm

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Specialist level
Location&Place: 

IFT Seminar Room/Red Room

Abstract: 

We will discuss the implications for cosmology and fundamental physics of the first detection of a binary neutron star merger, GW170817, both in GWs and in the EM spectrum.

See all the discovery papers at https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/detection-companion-papers