Gravitational Wave Astrophysics with TianQin: A brief progress review

TL;DR

This paper reviews the progress of TianQin, a space-based gravitational wave observatory, highlighting its potential to detect diverse sources and constrain fundamental physics through future observations.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of TianQin's capabilities and scientific prospects, emphasizing recent developments and future potential in gravitational wave astrophysics.

Findings

TianQin can observe various gravitational wave sources.

Future observations can constrain the universe's expansion history.

TianQin may detect a stochastic gravitational wave background.

Abstract

As a space-borne gravitational wave observatory, TianQin can observe a large variety of gravitational wave sources. The rich signals can be composed by different types of astronomical systems, like Galactic compact binaries, inspiral of stellar mass black holes, merger of massive black holes, and extreme mass ratio inspirals. The incoherent summation of these signals can also form a stochastic gravitational wave background. Using the future TianQin observation, it is possible to put stringent constraints on fundamental science, like the expansion history of our universe. In this work, we provide a brief review of these topics that contributes to the 7th International Workshop on the TianQin Science Mission.