Speaker
David Waisman Andrade
(Queen Mary University of London)
Description
Abstract:
Understanding and detecting gravitational waves is key to testing new theories.
Gravitational wave calculations from black holes all assume the background spacetime is flat.
Understanding these in a de Sitter background is imperative, and has a two-fold effect:
- It expands the reach of future gravity waves observations to the earliest universe (inflation) and also the largest distances (where our universe’s expansion becomes relevant).
- Develops our understanding of the asymptotic behaviour of gravitational waves in a de Sitter spacetime.
Primary authors
David Waisman Andrade
(Queen Mary University of London)
Dr
Scott Melville
(Queen Mary University of London)
