AEI-ICTS workshop on gravitational wave astronomy
It's an exciting time for Indian science at the moment, with the
September 28th launch of the
ASTROSAT multiwavelength astronomy mission,
and the development of a new interferometric gravitational-wave detector,
IndIGO.
Motivated by these developments, the
International Centre for Theoretical Sciences
hosted a joint worshop between November 4th—6th with the Albert Einstein Institute, at the new ICTS campus north of Bengaluru (Bangalore).
The meeting featured a range of talks on searches for gravitational waves as
well as X-ray, radio and optical followup. I gave an invited talk on our
knowledge of the orbital parameters of the best continuous-wave candidate source, Scorpius X-1, based on our 2014 paper.