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Tailored for undergraduate researchers, this calendar is a curated list of research seminars at the University of Illinois. Explore the diverse world of research and expand your knowledge through engaging sessions designed to inspire and enlighten.

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Binary Black Hole Formation: A Multimessenger, Multiband Puzzle

Event Type: Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor: Department of Astronomy
Location: 134 Astronomy Building
Virtual
Date: Dec 10, 2024 3:45 - 4:45 pm
Speaker: Professor Katelyn Breivik
Contact: Daniel Franco
E-Mail: danielf9@illinois.edu
Phone: 217-300-6769
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Originating Calendar: Astronomy Colloquium Speaker Calendar; Binary star populations play a pivotal role in nearly all subfields of astronomy and cosmology, yet the quantitative details of how they evolve are still poorly described. This is due both to a wide array of uncertain physical interaction processes like mass exchange and supernova explosions that can work in compounding ways and a lack of large data sets that contain binary populations across different evolutionary phases. In this talk, I’ll review how binary-star interactions shape stellar populations hosting black holes and introduce recent and upcoming gravitational wave and electromagnetic survey data releases that can be used to constrain models for binary evolution. I’ll finish with a discussion of the discovery of a new population of compact objects in binaries with stellar companions made by the Gaia satellite that offer a unique window into compact object formation.

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