ABSTRACT
Gravitational waves, first directly observed in 2015, have greatly enriched our understanding of astrophysics and fundamental physics. To begin, I will present the Open Gravitational-wave Catalog (OGC), which is based on an independent search utilizing open-source software and publicly available data from LIGO and Virgo. Following this, I will discuss the scientific implications of these findings, with the focus on the pursuit of detecting higher-order ringdown modes from the binary black hole events, as well as the implications for testing general relativity.
BIO
Dr. Yifan Wang is a postdoc at Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute). He obtained his Ph.D. degree at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and B.S. degree at University of Science and Technology of China. His current research interests are finding more compact binary coalescence systems through gravitational wave, utilizing more advanced search strategies or new waveform models incorporating novel physic effects.
