Title: Obliquity Evolution of Earthlike planets in α Centauri AB Abstract: Changes in planetary obliquity, or axial tilt, influence the climatic conditions on a potentially habitable planet, where orbital perturbations … Continue reading "CRA Cosmic Coffee: Billy Quarles"
Web: https://ccrg.rit.edu/user/jacob.lange Title: RIFT'ing the Waves: An algorithm to perform Rapid parameter inference on gavitational wave sources via Iterative FiTing Abstract: As the gravitational wave (GW) observatories get more sensitive, … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Jacob Lange (RIT)"
Web: "https://space.mit.edu/people/london-lionel-t" Title: On the gravitational wave multipole moments of systems with angular momentum Abstract: Since Einstein's quadrupole formalism, multipolar analysis has played a central role in gravitational wave theory. … Continue reading "CRA seminar by Dr. Lionel London (MIT)"
Web:https://phys.washington.edu/people/sanjay-reddy Title: Neutron stars in the multi-messenger era Abstract: About 50 years after their discovery, neutron stars are poised to take center stage in this era of multi-messenger astrophysics. I … Continue reading "CRA seminar by Dr. Sanjay Reddy (University of Washington)"
Web: https://sites.google.com/view/jcbecker/ Title: Forming hot Jupiters: observational constraints on gas giant formation and migration Abstract: The three commonly considered pathways for hot Jupiter formation are in situ formation, runaway accretion … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Dr. Juliette Becker (Caltech)"
Web: https://dark.nbi.ku.dk/people/marianne/ Title: Determining black hole masses of active galactic nuclei across cosmic time Abstract: Observations show that supermassive black holes can affect their environment through outflows and other feedback … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Prof. Marianne Vestergaard (Niels Bohr Institute, Univ. of Copenhagen)"
Title: Long- and Short-Distance Relationships with Massive Black Holes Abstract : In the last decade, growth of supermassive black holes in the centers of galaxies and their role in shaping … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Aycin Aykutalp (Los Alamos National Laboratory)"
Web: https://icecube.wisc.edu/~akheirandish/ Title: Cosmic Neutrinos and the Unique Insights They Provide into the High-Energy Universe Abstract: The era of high-energy astrophysics with cosmic neutrinos began with the discovery of high-energy … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Dr. Ali Kheirandish (University of Wisconsin)"
Web: https://www.ics.uzh.ch/~pcapelo/index.html Title: Dual active galactic nuclei and the pairing of supermassive black holes in the LISA era Abstract: Pairs of accreting supermassive black holes (SMBHs), known as dual active … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Dr. Pedro Capelo (University of Zurich)"
Trinity: An air shower imaging instrument to detect ultrahigh-energy neutrinos The detection of neutrinos with IceCube has cracked open a new window in astrophysics at the TeV-PeV energy scale. The … Continue reading "CRA Seminar by Prof. Nepomuk Otte (Georgia Tech)"
