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#3 Chiara Mingarelli - NANOGrav, Background Gravitational Waves, Black Holes

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Jun 24, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 4min
2
What Is a Gravitational Wave?
04:13 • 2min
3
The Space-Time Curvature
05:47 • 2min
4
The Special Role of Black Hole in Gravitational Waves
07:52 • 2min
5
Gravitational Wave Frequency
09:32 • 2min
6
How LIGO Detects Gravitational Waves
11:54 • 3min
7
The Gravitational Wave Background
14:24 • 3min
8
The Stochastic Background in the LIGO Band
17:24 • 2min
9
The Effect of the Whoop on Gravitational Waves
19:18 • 3min
10
How LIGO Can See Extreme Mergers
21:59 • 3min
11
The Doppler Effect of an Ambulance
25:22 • 3min
12
The Time Scale of Gravitational Waves
28:14 • 2min
13
The Nanogravity Experiment
30:21 • 3min
14
The Evolution of the Gravitational Wave Background
33:25 • 2min
15
The Sweet Spot Distance of Supermassive Law Calls
35:27 • 2min
16
The Space Based Gravitational Wave Detector
37:06 • 2min
17
The Coherence Issue With Pool Stars
38:55 • 3min
18
The Importance of Custom Noise Models for Pulsars
41:32 • 3min
19
The False Positive Rate of Pulsar Timing Gravitational Wave Signals
44:26 • 2min
20
The Astrophysical False Alarm
46:28 • 2min
21
The NaZotropy in the Background
48:44 • 3min
22
The Chorus of Supermassive Black Hole
52:03 • 2min
23
The Cusp of Detecting Gravitational Waves
53:41 • 5min
24
The Journey of Risk in Astronomy
58:55 • 6min
25
The Evolution of XM Means
01:04:30 • 3min
26
The Future of Astronomy
01:07:43 • 4min
27
The Importance of Persistence
01:11:32 • 4min
28
How Persistence Can Lead to Results
01:15:52 • 2min