#3 Chiara Mingarelli - NANOGrav, Background Gravitational Waves, Black Holes
Cool Worlds Podcast
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The Evolution of the Gravitational Wave Background
If I showed you a discovery tomorrow, what would be the first thing that you'd be comparing to your models? One of the really important things is understanding how the amplitude of the gravitational wave background evolves as a function of the frequency. Are the orbits slightly elliptical and elongated? How important is it if the black holes aren't the same mass? And are the black holes interacting with gas in stars?
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