Eternal Multi-Messenger Workshop

Eternal Multi-Messenger Workshop

This will be a day-long event which combines experts in galactic astronomy, gravitational waves, and other field of astrophysics, to better understand the physics we can extract from long-lived multi messenger signals. The focus will therefore be supermassive black hole binaries in both the Pulsar Timing Array and LISA bands.

9:00am — 10:45am: 

Welcome and opening remarks from SOC: Chiara Mingarelli,  Priya Natarajan, Andrew MacFadyen, Zoltan Haiman (5 mins).

Morning PTA overview: Sarah Burke-Spolaor (30 mins + 15 min discussion).

Morning LISA overview: Kelley Holley-Bockelmann (30 mins + 15 min discussion).

11:00am — 12:30pm:

Predictions and searches for SMBHBs EM counterparts: Panel: Tamara Bogdanovic*, Julian Krolik, Maria Charisi, Dong Lai.

Discussion to include clues about SMBHB host galaxies, direct probes of binary activity, and current binary candidates.

1:30pm – 3:00pm:

Multimessenger astrophysics – current status: Panel: Michael Eracleous*, Andrea Lommen, Joe Simon, Cole Miller, Shane Larson.

Who has thoughts about PTA and LISA MM signals?

3:30pm — 5:30pm:

Multimessenger astrophysics – future directions: Science we can only do with these long-lived signals, future telescopes: Jon Trump*, Anna Barnacka, Dan D’Orazio, John Baker,Suvodip Mukherjee.

6:00pm — until:

Dinner – Louie and Chan, http://www.louieandchan.com/

*Panel leader, responsible for putting together a few (around 10) slides to stimulate conversation.

Confirmed attendees