Speaker
Dr.
Andrea Taracchini
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Potsdam)
Description
The direct observation and characterization of gravitational waves from the coalescence of binary black holes by the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations is a testament to the crucial role played by waveform modeling in these discoveries. I will review the effective-one-body approach to describing the whole process of inspiral, merger and ringdown. This model implements the idea of a unified description of the dynamics of compact binaries, from the comparable-mass regime to the test-particle limit, with the goal of incorporating analytical and numerical information from different areas of relativity. I will highlight synergetic efforts with black-hole perturbation theory and gravitational self-force. I will also discuss applications of this model to the data analysis of the first gravitational-wave detections.
Primary author
Dr.
Andrea Taracchini
(Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics Potsdam)
