Status | Confirmed |
Seminar Series | IPHT-HEP |
Subjects | hep-ph |
Date | Tuesday 5 February 2019 |
Time | 16:00 |
Institute | IPHT |
Seminar Room | Salle Claude Itzykson, Bât. 774 |
Speaker's Last Name | Cyril Pitrou |
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Speaker's Institution | IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris |
Title | Anisotropies of the astrophysical gravitational background |
Abstract | The astrophysical background of gravitational waves (AGWB) is made up by the incoherent superposition of gravitational wave signals emitted by a large number of resolved and unresolved astrophysical sources from the onset of stellar activity until today. I present a theoretical framework to fully characterize the AGWB in terms of energy density anisotropies which is based on the resolution of Olbers' paradox. I also discuss how these results can be recovered from a Boltzmann approach with an ad-hoc GW emissivity. It is found that the predictions of the signal angular statistics depend on the astrophysical modelling, hence this observable opens a new window on the history of compact objects populations. |
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