Gravitational Waves
A significant part of my work consists of modeling strong gravitational wave sources, which have been detected directly by the ground-based interferometer advanced LIGO. There is now good reason to belief that such detection will become routine over the next 1-2 years. In the longterm signals from supermassive black hole binaries will be detected by Pulsar Timing Arrays, and (future) space-based missions (LISA). One of the many great things about gravitational waves is that they are generated only in the most violent events in the universe but once emitted they pass through everything essentially without any interaction and are therefore excellent, clean probes of strong-field gravity.
Collaborators:
Bernd Bruegmann,
Sebastiano Bernuzzi,
Frans Pretorius,
Marcus Thierfelder,
Vasileios Paschalidis,
Milton Ruiz,
Stuart L. Shapiro,
Zachariah B. Etienne,
Harald P. Pfeiffer