[Interview] Turning the Gravitational Wave Game To The Max

May 10th, 2023
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Gravitational waves can reveal things we would never detect otherwise. But different events require different sizes of detectors. In this interview, I'm talking with Waldemar Martens from ESA about a proposed LISAmax mission that will have 259 million kilometer arms and should be able to detect collisions of supermassive black holes.

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More about LISAmax:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.08287

  • 00:00 Intro
  • 01:38 What's the status of LISA
  • 10:18 What could LISA detect
  • 20:45 What would LISAmax be
  • 34:57 What could LISAmax discover
  • 40:10 LISA VS LISAmax
  • 48:25 What's next for LISAmax

📺 VIDEO VERSION
https://youtu.be/2OykvNV8zuw

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