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GW170817 Falsifies Dark Matter Emulators

Seminar
Thursday, 14.06.2018 14:00

Speakers: Emre Kahya (Technical University, Istanbul)
Place: Seminární místnost č. 226 ve druhém patře budovy FZÚ AV ČR, Na Slovance 2, Praha 8
Presented in English
Organisers: Department of Particle Theory and Phenomenology
The gravitational wave (GW) signal (GW170817) from the coalescence of binary neutron stars was simultaneously seen throughout the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum from radio waves to gamma rays. We point out that this simultaneous detection rules out a class of modified gravity theories, and provides another indirect evidence for the existence of dark matter.