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SUMMARY:Formation of Merging Compact Binaries - Prof. Dong Lai -- Cornell 
 University
DTSTART:20230130T160000Z
DTEND:20230130T170000Z
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CONTACT:Callum William Fairbairn
DESCRIPTION:The recent breakthrough in the detection of gravitational wave
 s (GWs) from merging black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) binaries by adv
 anced LIGO/Virgo has generated renewed interest in understanding the forma
 tion mechanisms of merging compact binaries\, from the evolution of massiv
 e stellar binaries and triples in the galactic fields\, dynamical interact
 ions in dense star clusters to binary mergers in AGN disks. I will review 
 these different formation channels\, and discuss how observations of spin-
 orbit misalignments\, eccentricities\, masses and mass ratios in a sample 
 of merging binaries by aLIGO can constrain various formation channels. 
LOCATION:Streaming online and in MR14
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