In May 2023, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration’s fourth observing run brought about an exciting discovery: the mass-gap event GW230529. A mass-gap event happens when one, or both, of the objects in the gravitational wave-emitting binary falls between the upper limit of mass for a neutron star (roughly three solar masses), and the lower limit of mass…
Author: Laura Elina Uronen
HS Winter Workshop 2023
In December, our group held a whole-day workshop aimed at Hong Kong high school students with an interest in gravitational waves. The session consisted of a general introduction to the topic of gravitational-wave physics: what gravitational waves are, where they come from, how we detect them, and how we analyze them. The workshop consisted of…