Monday

The recent release of the second gravitational wave(GW) catalog, GWTC-2, shared many expected and some unexpected observations. This includes the observation, GW190412, a black-hole binary with asymmetric masses, GW190814, a binary with highly asymmetric and puzzling masses, and GW190521 the most massive binary observed to date. The number of GW detections stands at around fifty, thus also facilitating population-level inference on multiple topics. These include cosmology, strong-field tests of general relativity, and source astrophysics. In this talk, I will briefly discuss recent results in GW astronomy presented in various publications post GWTC-2.