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8.981 :: Selected Topics in Astrophysics

 

Course term projects

Here, at long last, are the writeups and presentations people gave at the end of 8.981 (at least, the ones I received): Advanced ground-based interferometers (Tim Bodiya [focus on "3rd generation" instruments]; Nicolas Smith [focus on optics and interferometry for advanced or "2nd generation" instruments]; Brian Daub). What technologies are needed to improve the sensitivity of

Tim Bodiya: "3rd generation" ground-based detectors paper

Ian Duke: Source populations (particularly binaries) talk

Adrian Liu: Imprint of GWs on the CMB paper talk

Mike Matejek: Bar detectors paper talk

Leslie Rogers: Stellar core collapse paper talk

Leo Stein: Black hole perturbation theory paper talk

Sarah Vigeland: Gravitational wave detection by millisecond pulsar timing paper talk

Phil Zukin: Inflation and the GW spectrum it creates paper talk