Leipzig 2002 – wissenschaftliches Programm

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SYSL: Schwarze Löcher

SYSL III: HV III

SYSL III.1: Hauptvortrag

Dienstag, 19. März 2002, 16:00–16:45, HS 20

Gravitational Radiation from Black Holes — •Bernard Schutz — Albert Einstein Institute, Golm

As the first observations with the large interferometric gravitational wave detectors begin, one of the strongest candidates for the first detection is the coalescence of two black holes from a binary orbit. It appears that suitable systems are made relatively abundantly in compact globular clusters. Their orbital motion radiates strongly during the last few seconds before coalescence, and the coalescence event may also be a strong source of radiation. In this talk I will review the status of detectors, the astrophysical setting for black-hole sources, the efforts – both analytical and numerical – that are being made to predict the radiation that we should expect from these systems, and the way in which these predictions are being used to maximize the likelihood of detecting such an event.