The Fifth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Gravitational Wave Transient Catalogue (GWTC-5)
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Tsung-Dao Lee Institute/S4F-SW - Open Area
Tsung-Dao Lee Institute
Host: Dong Lai
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Abstract:
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration recently published it's fifth catalogue of gravitational waves detected from the mergers of binaries containing black holes and neutron stars, bringing the total number of such detections up to 322. The new catalogue represents the largest addition to our body of detections to date, and has faciliatated unprecedented understanding of the population of binary black holes in the universe. In this talk, I will show highlights from the new results, and describe the process of building and analysing a gravitational wave catalogue from signal detection to public data.
Biography:
Dr Lucy Thomas is a gravitational wave scientist specialising in gravitational waveform modelling, parameter estimation, and machine learning implementations. She obtained her PhD from the University of Birmingham in 2023, is currently a postdoctoral researcher in the LIGO Lab at Caltech, and in October will begin a Marie Curie Fellowship at the University of Glasgow. She is an active member of the Simulating eXtreme Spacetime (SXS) and LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) collaborations, chairing the LVK waveform modelling group. She led the analysis team for the GWTC-5 catalogue.
