Title: Hydrodynamical Evolution of Binary Black Holes Embedded in AGN Disks Abstract: Stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) embedded in active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks are promising progenitors of black hole mergers detected in gravitational waves (GW) by LIGO-VIRGO-KAGRA. Current observed mergers show distinct properties that may only be explained by this AGN channel, with a … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Rixin Li (Cornell)"

Title: Neutrino astronomy with IceCube Connecting Photoelectrons to Supermassive Black Holes Abstract: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, deployed beneath the South Pole, is the largest optical neutrino telescope in the World. IceCube has been studying a diffuse flux of high-energy (>TeV) astrophysical neutrinos, ever since it reported the first evidence in 2013. However, the sources of … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Hans Niederhausen"

Title: High accuracy waveform models for high precision gravitational wave astronomy Abstract: Characterization of gravitational wave (GW) signals from the merger of binary black holes (BBHs) heavily rely on accurate … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Tousif Islam (UMass-Dartmouth)"

Title: Glitches get stitches: The effect non-transient noise in LIGO detectors on astrophysical inference, and what to do about it Abstract: Ground-based gravitational-wave detector networks have detected a deluge of … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Sophie Hourihane (Caltech)"