Speaker
Prof.
Andrzej Krolak
(Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences)
Description
I shall review stochastic sources of gravitational waves and prospects of their detection. A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of a large number of unresolved gravitational-wave sources of astrophysical and cosmological origin. I shall present the status of
the searches for stochastic gravitational wave sources by the LIGO and VIRGO projects. I shall outline the data analysis methods used in these searches and I shall give details of the recent results. I shall discuss implications of these searches for cosmology.
Primary author
Prof.
Andrzej Krolak
(Institute of Mathematics Polish Academy of Sciences)
