Speaker: Elena Maria Rossi (Leiden U.)
Title: Multi messenger studies of the Local Group of galaxies
Abstract:
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna will detect around twenty thousand individual white dwarf binaries out to the Andromeda galaxy. Many more will form an unresolved stochastic background, clearly detectable above the LISA sensitivity curve. Both resolved and unresolved sources, have been used to trace the baryonic matter in our Galaxy. In this talk, I will show how my group has extended previous work to include for the first time both the synergy with optical information and the study of external galaxies. The knowledge of how baryonic matter is distributed in our more accessible local group of galaxies, is of paramount importance to understand galaxy formation in general.