Date of Award
1-1-2024
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D. in Physics
First Advisor
Leo C. Stein
Second Advisor
Alakabha Datta
Third Advisor
Anuradha Gupta
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
After decades of promise, gravitational waves from a binary black hole system were detected on September 14, 2015 by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Since then, close to 100 new gravitational-wave detections, including those from neutron star and neutron star-black hole binaries, have been made jointly by the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) collaboration. LIGO's fourth observing run (O4) has begun, and signals on the order of one per week are expected. This rate will only increase as third-generation ground-based detectors will be getting hundreds of thousands of gravitational-wave signals when they go online in the next decade. Moreover, space-based detectors like the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna, or LISA, will have a sensitivity that allows to capture multiple ringdown frequencies of remnant black holes.
Recommended Citation
Magaña Zertuche, Lorena, "Listening to Black Holes Ring: High-Precision Ringdown Modelling" (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2836.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/2836