June 17, 2024 to July 19, 2024
Lead/Deadwood Middle School
US/Mountain timezone

TALK: Dark Matter in the Time of Gravitational Waves

Jul 1, 2024, 9:00 AM
45m
Lead/Deadwood Middle School

Lead/Deadwood Middle School

(0.3 miles, 7 min walk from hotel)

Speaker

Tao Xu (The University of Oklahoma)

Description

The observation of gravitational waves opens a new window for exploring astrophysics and cosmology. These messengers enable the concurrent measurement of their amplitudes and phases, facilitating a precise analysis of gravitational wave production and propagation. In this talk, I will demonstrate how gravitational waves can be utilized to study the properties of dark matter. Specifically, I will use wave dark matter as an example to show that gravitational waveforms, along with further multi-messenger observations involving photon signals, reveal distinctive features. These features can be probed with the ongoing LIGO and upcoming LISA missions.

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