1a) Strong Gravitational Fields
Co-Chairs: Carl Gwinn, Bob Wagoner
Is General Relativity Valid in Strong Gravitational Fields?
- 1) What is the theoretical motivation for departures from GR?
Can observations from r near r_g test GR?
- In general: scalar-tensor theories...
- Near black holes: Abelian charge...
- 2) Present tests of GR in weak fields
- Solar system, binary pulsar, primordial nucleosynthesis
- 3) Advection Dominated Accretion Flows: Evidence for a Horizon
- 4) Observations of Accretion Disks: Are these Useful as Tests?
- Line profiles: the Iron Line
- Innermost Satble Orbit
- Diskoseismology
- Lense-Thirring Precession
- Stefan-Boltzmann determination of inner radius
- Physical Models of Orbiting Blobs
- 5) Gravitational-wave observations (LIGO, Virgo, LISA)
- BH Capture of Star (Test Particle); BH-BH Coalescence
- 6) Other Approaches