Speaker
Description
The gravitational-wave observatories of LIGO and Virgo have opened a new field of astronomy. The first and nearest signal from merging neutron stars, GW170817, guided astronomical partners' observations, constrained the source system's properties, and gave a new viewpoint on the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars. More distant sources primarily tell us about the source masses, and additional mergers involving neutron stars have already revealed that gravitational-wave sources are unlike binaries previously observed in our Galaxy. Together gravitational-wave observations are informing our understanding of dense matter and stellar evolution. In this talk, I will outline prospects of learning about neutron stars in the current Advanced-detector era and show how current results fit with other observations of dense matter and nuclear physics. I will extrapolate to the astronomical potential of next-generation ground-based observatories like Cosmic Explorer.
| speaker affiliation | CSU Fullerton, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Cosmic Explorer Consortium |
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