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Aug 20 – 22, 2025
ERC
America/Chicago timezone

Detecting uHz Gravitational Waves with Binary Resonances

Aug 20, 2025, 12:00 PM
30m
401 (ERC)

401

ERC

5640 S. Ellis Ave., Chicago, IL 60637

Speaker

Josh Foster

Description

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy offers unrivaled discovery opportunities in the coming decades, with the potential to shed light on physics ranging from the formation and evolution of black holes to fundamental aspects of the early Universe. However, a comprehensive examination of the GW frequency spectrum is hampered by presently limited prospects for GW detection at uHz frequencies. In this talk, I describe how the resonant energy transfer between GWs and binary systems may produce observable perturbations to orbital dynamics, paving the way toward future searches for uHz GW with lunar laser ranging and pulsar timing array datasets.

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