Orateur
Dr
Eric Thrane
(University of Minnesota)
Description
Searches for gravitational waves traditionally fall into one of four categories: sub-second bursts, inspirals, pulsars, and stochastic. Inspiral and pulsar searches tend to look for signals with highly constrained waveforms whereas burst and stochastic searches are typically more flexible. Intermediate-duration transients (lasting from a few seconds to a few weeks) represent a largely unexplored class of objects. A variety of interesting sources may emit gravitational waves on timescales of several seconds to weeks, including microquasars, long GRBs, pulsar glitches, and supernovae; and in many cases the expected waveform is not highly constrained. Many of these sources may produce large fluxes of neutrinos detectable by large neutrino telescopes. By looking for coincident GW-ν signals, we hope to significantly lower the false alarm rate on a search for gravitational-wave transients.
Author
Dr
Eric Thrane
(University of Minnesota)
