Multi-Messenger Astronomy with Extremely Large Telescopes
Abstract
The field of time-domain astrophysics has entered the era of Multi-messenger Astronomy (MMA). One key science goal for the next decade (and beyond) will be to characterize gravitational wave (GW) and neutrino sources using the next generation of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs). These studies will have a broad impact across astrophysics, informing our knowledge of the production and enrichment history of the heaviest chemical elements, constrain the dense matter equation of state, provide independent constraints on cosmology, increase our understanding of particle acceleration in shocks and jets, and study the lives of black holes in the universe. Future GW detectors will greatly improve their sensitivity during the coming decade, as will near-infrared telescopes capable of independently finding kilonovae from neutron star mergers. However, the electromagnetic counterparts to high-frequency (LIGO/Virgo band) GW sources will be distant and faint and thus demand ELT capabilities for characterization. ELTs will be important and necessary contributors to an advanced and complete multi-messenger network.
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@article{arxiv.1903.04629,
title = {Multi-Messenger Astronomy with Extremely Large Telescopes},
author = {Ryan Chornock and Philip S. Cowperthwaite and Raffaella Margutti and Dan Milisavljevic and Kate D. Alexander and Igor Andreoni and Iair Arcavi and Adriano Baldeschi and Jennifer Barnes and Eric Bellm and Paz Beniamini and Edo Berger and Christopher P. L. Berry and Federica Bianco and Peter K. Blanchard and Joshua S. Bloom and Sarah Burke-Spolaor and Eric Burns and Dario Carbone and S. Bradley Cenko and Deanne Coppejans and Alessandra Corsi and Michael Coughlin and Maria R. Drout and Tarraneh Eftekhari and Ryan J. Foley and Wen-fai Fong and Ori Fox and Dale A. Frail and Dimitrios Giannios and V. Zach Golkhou and Sebastian Gomez and Melissa Graham and Or Graur and Aprajita Hajela and Gregg Hallinan and Chad Hanna and Kenta Hotokezaka and Vicky Kalogera and Daniel Kasen and Mansi Kasliwal and Adithan Kathirgamaraju and Wolfgang E. Kerzendorf and Charles D. Kilpatrick and Tanmoy Laskar and Emily Levesque and Andrew MacFadyen and Phillip Macias and Ben Margalit and Thomas Matheson and Brian D. Metzger and Adam A. Miller and Maryam Modjaz and Kohta Murase and Ariadna Murguia-Berthier and Samaya Nissanke and Antonella Palmese and Chris Pankow and Kerry Paterson and Locke Patton and Rosalba Perna and David Radice and Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz and Armin Rest and Jeonghee Rho and Cesar Rojas-Bravo and Nathaniel C. Roth and Mohammad Safarzadeh and David Sand and Boris Sbarufatti and Daniel M. Siegel and Lorenzo Sironi and Marcelle Soares-Santos and Niharika Sravan and Sumner Starrfield and Rachel A. Street and Guy S. Stringfellow and Alexander Tchekhovskoy and Giacomo Terreran and Stefano Valenti and V. Ashley Villar and Yihan Wang and J. Craig Wheeler and G. Grant Williams and Jonathan Zrake},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04629},
year = {2019}
}
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White paper submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey