Last week I visited Milwaukee for the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy workshop, hosted by UWM. This was the continuation of the venerable GWDAW series of meetings, but the format has been revised somewhat to focus more on observations and GW science than the technical aspects of detector development. For my money it was a big success, and I learned a lot about the candidate sources for LIGO and how we might follow them up with electromagnetic (optical, X-ray etc.) observations. My own presentation was on the expected instrumental capabilities in X-rays throughout the Asvanced-LIGO epoch. And, of course, I got to see the Fonz!

X-ray observing capabilities 2014-18 and implications for gravitational wave astronomy (2.4MB PDF)

Labels: 2011, gravitational waves