Monthly Archives: March 2026
Letter to the crew of Artemis II
Dear Artemis II crew, Good luck on your mission. What you are about to do is more than a flight. It is a step further into a place that, for most of us, only exists in equations and thought experiments. … Continue reading
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Inspiral-merger-ringdown consistency tests and the reconstruction of Kerr geometry
One of the more conceptually interesting developments in gravitational wave astronomy is the inspiral-merger-ringdown (IMR) consistency test. At a heuristic level, the idea is rather simple: different sectors of a binary black hole coalescence should reconstruct the same final spacetime … Continue reading
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Tagged Astrophysics, Black holes, consistency tests, general relativity
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