Speaker
Prof.
Mark Hannam
(Cardiff University)
Description
The recent first direct detection of gravitational waves relied on accurate theoretical models of the signals produced by colliding black holes. Current models were tuned to numerical solutions of Einstein's equations for the last orbits and merger of two black holes, and a large number of follow-up numerical-relativity simulations were performed to cross-check the results and test for systematic errors. DiRAC was used for many of these simulations. I will summarise the state of the field and the prospects for the future.
Primary author
Prof.
Mark Hannam
(Cardiff University)
