Session 1 · Australia
Ling (Lilli) Sun
Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, Australian National University
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The first detection of gravitational waves in 2015 marked the beginning of a new era in astrophysics. Over the past decade, observations of hundreds of black hole and neutron star mergers have not only deepened our understanding of compact objects but also opened up unprecedented opportunities to explore fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model. This talk discusses how black holes can serve as powerful probes of the dark sector, with a particular focus on ultralight bosons. Measurements of black hole spins and searches for gravitational-wave signals associated with ultralight bosons provide complementary ways to test for the existence of these hypothetical particles.
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About Ling (Lilli) Sun
Ling (Lilli) Sun is a faculty member at the Australian National University's Centre for Gravitational Astrophysics, an ARC DECRA Fellow, and a Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav). Her research interests include gravitational-wave data analysis and fundamental physics, black-hole spectroscopy and ringdown, long-transient and continuous gravitational waves, ultralight bosons and dark matter, detector calibration, and future gravitational-wave science.