Institute for Advanced Study/Princeton University Early Universe/Cosmology Lunch Discussion

I will discuss the challenges and prospects of Gravitational-wave Paleontology:  studying massive (binary) stars from their “remnants” as compact object mergers, with the goal to answer key open questions in gravitational-wave astronomy today: What can we learn from these gravitational-wave sources about the formation, lives, and explosive deaths of massive stars across cosmic time?  I’ll discuss the biggest bottleneck in gravitational-wave paleontology: the uncertainty challenge, and would love to discuss new projects/collaborations to overcome it.