Conference

The IFAE GW group at the Almadi14 Conference

July 21, 2021

Gravitational Waves Group

The GW group at IFAE is contributing talks and posters to Almadi 14 , the most important conference in the field.

  • M. Martinez, Talk: “A new instrumented baffle for Advanced Virgo”
  • A. Romero, Poster: “Implications for first-order cosmological phase transitions and the formation of primordial black holes from the third LIGO-Virgo observing run”
  • A. Menendez, Poster: “Searches for Compact Binary Coalescence Events using Neural Networks in LIGO/Virgo data”
  • Ch. Karathanasis, Poster: “Estimating cosmological parameters and testing general relativity using LIGO/Virgo data.”

Latest Group News

Instrumentation

Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase

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The IFAE contributions to the ETpathfinder test facility is described in this article “Test facility ETpathfinder enters new phase ”.

Prize

Alba Romero-Rodriguez winner of the 2023 Virgo Awards

November 15, 2023

Alba Romero-Rodriguez (former PhD Student at IFAE and now at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel) is one of the wiiners of the third edition of the Virgo Awards

New Publication

New GW group publication

May 8, 2023

Searches for mass-asymmetric compact binary coalescence events using neural networks in the LIGO/Virgo third observation period by M. Andrés-Carcasona, A. Menéndez-Vázquez, M. Martínez, and Ll. M. Mir has been published by Phys.Rev.D