The future of gravitational-wave astronomy

Authors

  • Paul Lasky Monash Centre for Astrophysics, Monash University

Abstract

Advanced LIGO and Virgo are now in their third observing run, having detected ten binary black hole mergers and one binary neutron star merger to date. The future of this field is bright, with future prospects including tests of general relativity in the ultra-strong field regime, probing of bulk matter at supranuclear densities, and much more. I will recap what gravitational-wave astronomy has taught us about the Universe to date, and discuss some of the next major discoveries that we hope to see in the upcoming observation runs. I will also discuss a new piece of software that is lowering the bar for gravitational-wave and non-gravitational-wave scientists alike to easily analyse LIGO/Virgo data, with the opportunity to make their own discoveries.

Author Biography

  • Paul Lasky, Monash Centre for Astrophysics, Monash University

    Paul Lasky is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and Senior Lecturer at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He is an active member of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration that in 2015 first discovered gravitational waves from the collision of two black holes, and subsequently discovered gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars in 2017. Lasky was awarded the 2018 Pawsey Medal from the Australian Academy of Sciences for his contributions to physics. His group has developed the software that LIGO and Virgo will use to understand all gravitational-wave events detected in the coming few years. He also works on strong-field tests of general relativity, black holes, neutron stars, gamma-ray bursts, and large-scale cosmology in his spare time. 

SPP 2019 Proceedings cover

Downloads

Published

2019-04-06

Issue

2019: Proceedings of the 37th Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas Physics Conference

Section

Invited Presentations

License

By submitting their manuscript to the Samahang Pisika ng Pilipinas (SPP) for consideration, the Authors warrant that their work is original, does not infringe on existing copyrights, and is not under active consideration for publication elsewhere.
Upon acceptance of their manuscript, the Authors further agree to grant SPP the non-exclusive, worldwide, and royalty-free rights to record, edit, copy, reproduce, publish, distribute, and use all or part of the manuscript for any purpose, in any media now existing or developed in the future, either individually or as part of a collection.
All other associated economic and moral rights as granted by the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines are maintained by the Authors.

How to Cite

[1]
“The future of gravitational-wave astronomy”, Proc. SPP, vol. 37, no. 1, p. SPP-2019-INV-2A-01, Apr. 2019, Accessed: Mar. 29, 2026. [Online]. Available: https://proceedings.spp-online.org/article/view/SPP-2019-INV-2A-01