The advanced gravitational wave (GW) detector network has started {routine detection of } signals from merging compact binaries. Data indicate that in a fair fraction of these sources, at least one component was a neutron star, bringing with it the possibility of electromagnetic (EM) radiation. So far, a confirmed link between EM and GW radiation has been established for only one source, GW170817. Joint analysis of broadband multiwavelength data and the GW signal have yielded rich information spanning fields as varied as jet physics, cosmology, and nucleosynthesis. Here, we discuss the importance of such joint observations, as well as current and near-future efforts to discover and study more EM counterparts to GW sources.
@article{arxiv.2204.05648,
title = {Gravitational Waves and Electromagnetic Transients},
author = {Akshat Singhal and Sourav Palit and Suman Bala and Gaurav Waratkar and Harsh Kumar and Varun Bhalerao},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.05648},
year = {2022}
}
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14 pages, 3 figures, 3 tables, review paper in Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy