Saturday, August 20, 2016

Testing Einstein’s Weak Equivalence Principle with Gravitational Waves

Prof. Xuefeng Wu from Purple Mountain Observatory (former UNLV postdoc) and Prof. He Gao from Beijing Normal University (former UNLV PhD student) published one paper with Prof. Bing Zhang and other coauthors to suggest the use of gravitational waves to directly test Einstein’s Weak Equivalence Principle .

Prof. Bing Zhang recent work reported in AAS NOVA

Prof. Zhang recently published a paper in ApJ Letters suggesting that mergers of charged black holes can give rise to electromagnetic signals from gravitational wave events due to black hole - black hole mergers.

This work is reported in AAS NOVA .