Last week I visited Hannover for the Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy workshop, hosted by AEI-Hannover. I first attended this series of meetings, previously GWDAW, back in 2011; the attendees are a very interesting confluence of astrophysicists and gravitational-wave experimentalists. I presented the recent work with Shakya Premachandra on the orbital period of Sco X-1. I was also called in at the last minute to give a talk on the status and capabilities of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder and the Mileura Widefield Array, replacing David Kaplan, who had to leave. The prospects for radio followup of future detections of graviational waves with advanced interferometers are very exciting! We also had the chance to visit the GEO600 interferometric gravitational wave detector, just outside Hannover, which was great (although rainy).

Tuning up for Gravitational Wave Detection in Accreting Neutron Stars: a progress report (3.2MB PDF)
Searching for Radio Transients with ASKAP (and MWA) (18.7MB PDF)

Labels: 2012, /gravitational waves