Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing -
Dealing with the Turbulent Interstellar Medium
Dan Stinebring
Oberlin College
The North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav)
is an effort by Canadian and US scientists to detect gravitational waves
from orbiting supermassive black hole binaries (SMBH) by high precision
pulsar timing. I will review the current status of our effort and discuss
one challenge in detail: how do we correct for a variety of time-variable
delays due to propagation through the ionized interstellar medium? I
will start by discussing early papers in this field including Kaspi and
Stinebring (1992) and Kaspi, Taylor, and Ryba (1994).
Date: | Thursday, 28 March 2013 |
Time: | 15:00 |
Where: | McGill University |
| Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Board Room (room 105) |
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