Fantastic talk by @spacetimekatie on the implications of the extraordinary binary of https://arxiv.org/abs/1806.02751 Such a low mass black hole would rule out the mass gap and the rapid supernova mechanism. However, could it be a neutron star—it's odd there's no X-rays #MWRM18
Philippe Landry discusses using constraints on the neutron star equation of state from #GW170817 to infer the neutron star moment of inertia. Can infer spin of the double pulsar's pulsar A to be ~0.02 https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.04727 #MWRM18
Scotty Coughlin of @NUCIERA & @cardiffPHYSX updates us on the status of the #citizenscience project @GravitySpyZoo Citizen scientists classify glitches, and this allows training of machine learning algorithms #MWRM18
Excellent talk from @KenyonCollege undregrad Georgia Stolle-McAllister on searching for intermediate mass black holes with @LIGO & @ego_virgo Using numerical relativity to test sensitivity of the search because higher modes are more important for higher mass systems #MWRM18
Sharan Banagiri of @UMNews on searches for gravitational waves from the merger remnant of GW170817? This could tell us about what was left behind https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.09320 https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.02581 Really need next generation detectors! #MWRM18
@almostdrdoctor, like months, like binary neutron star mergers as they emit light. USing this, we can learn more about the properties of the ejected material and the source of heavy elements #MWRM18
@kourtneyfish of @UChicagoAstro discusses standard siren measurements of the Hubble constant. Better results when we have an electromagnetic counterpart, but we can still get good results without using galaxies catalogues (good news for using black holes) #MWRM18
Shi (Claire) Ye of @NUCIERA on millisecond pulsars in globular clusters. The more black holes a globular cluster has, the fewer millisecond pulsars it will have #MWRM18
Miguel Holgado of @Illinois_Alma continues on common envelope evolution. Simulations of massive stars do not shrink as efficiently or circularise. Could have important impacts on the population seen by @LIGO & @ego_virgo #MWRM18
Logan Prust of @UWMCGCA is modelling common envelope evolution, one of the most uncertain pieces of binary evolution #MWRM18
Kristina Islo of @UWMCGCA & @NANOGrav on detecting the gravitational wave memory effect from supermassive black hole binaries. A promising case for detection with @LISACommunity? #MWRM18
Excellent talk by @EveAChase of @NUCIERA on a nonparametric statistical method to reconstruct the binary merger rate as a function of redshift. This could shed light on how binaries form (globular cluster vs isolated binaries?) #MWRM18
Milton Ruiz of @PhysicsIllinois on how observations of #GW170817 can let us set an upper bound on the mass of neutron stars. For cold, nonrotating neutron stars, the maximum mass is 2.16 − 2.28 solar masses https://arxiv.org/abs/1711.00473 #MWRM18
New grad student @MattCarney106 explains his new spectral method of constraining the neutron star of state using gravitational wave measurements (https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11217 This approach was used by @LIGO & @ego_virgo (https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.11581 #MWRM18
I'm having a fun time at the Midwest Relativity Meeting at @UWMCGCA https://cgca.uwm.edu/events/2018mwrm Lot's of interesting talks this morning—including some great talks from @NUCIERA students #MWRM18
