Gravitational Waves and the Merger of Pulsars

Jonathan Keohane; Daryl Janzen; David Moffett; Michael Allen; Kalee Tock; Aaron LaCluyze; Stanley Converse; Daniel Reichart; Megan Dubay; Colin Wallace; Elijah Hayes; Gloria Brown SImmons; Jeff Regester; John Torian; Joshua Haislip; Kate Meredith; Logan Selph; Matthew Fleenor; Michael Fitzgerald; Rielly Castle; Ruide Fu

Stars and Stellar Evolution

10 Gravitational Waves and the Merger of Pulsars

Question: Where are Black Holes coming in here? I changed the title, but we can change it when we are done.

If we want to measure their masses, we should do X-ray archival astronomy. Lots of good XRBs. What am I missing? — JWK

Outline of sorts:

Introduction to Binary Pulsars

The Hulse-Taylor Binary Pulsar

Gravitational Waves

Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity

Introduction to Gravitational Wave Detection

License

The Multiwavelength Universe Copyright © by Jonathan Keohane; Daryl Janzen; David Moffett; Michael Allen; Kalee Tock; Aaron LaCluyze; Stanley Converse; Daniel Reichart; Megan Dubay; Colin Wallace; Elijah Hayes; Gloria Brown SImmons; Jeff Regester; John Torian; Joshua Haislip; Kate Meredith; Logan Selph; Matthew Fleenor; Michael Fitzgerald; Rielly Castle; and Ruide Fu. All Rights Reserved.