Open lecture
"On the origin of merging black hole binaries"
"On the origin of merging black hole binaries", prof. Tomasz Bulik
Obserwatorium Astronomiczne UW
Dec. 2, 2024, 11 a.m.
ul. Pasteura 5, 0.06
Gravitational observations of the first three observing runs of Ligo and Virgo have brought a catalogue of nearly one hundred mergers. I will review what can we observe about each merger and discuss the statistics of the observed population. I will then describe the models of the formation of merging compact objects and confront the models with observations.