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On August 17, 2017, Advanced LIGO and Virgo observed GW170817, the first gravitational-wave (GW) signal from a binary neutron star merger. It was followed by a short-duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 170817A, and by a non-thermal afterglow…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-14 Giulia Gianfagna , Luigi Piro , Francesco Pannarale , Hendrik Van Eerten , Fulvio Ricci , Geoffrey Ryan , Eleonora Troja

With the detection of gravitational waves (GWs), multi-messenger astronomy has opened a new window for advancing our understanding of astrophysics, dense matter, gravitation, and cosmology. The GW sources detected to date are from mergers…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Yiming Dong , Yacheng Kang , Junjie Zhao , Xinyuan Zhu , Ziming Wang , Lijing Shao

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration (LVC) sent out 56 gravitational-wave (GW) notices during the third observing run (O3). Japanese collaboration for Gravitational wave…

The electromagnetic (EM) follow-up of a gravitational wave (GW) event requires to scan a wide sky region, defined by the so called "skymap", for the detection and identification of a transient counterpart. We propose a novel method that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-19 Om S. Salafia , Monica Colpi , Marica Branchesi , Eric Chassande-Mottin , Giancarlo Ghirlanda , Gabriele Ghisellini , Susanna Vergani

The observation of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers has established the field of gravitational wave astronomy. It is expected that future networks of gravitational wave detectors will possess great potential in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Joseph Mills , Vaibhav Tiwari , Stephen Fairhurst

In this follow-up paper, we continue our study of the effect of using knowledge from electromagnetic observations in the gravitational wave (GW) data analysis of Galactic binaries that are predicted to be observed by the new \textit{Laser…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Sweta Shah , Gijs Nelemans , Marc van der Sluys

Gravitational-wave astronomy provides a unique new way to study the expansion history of the Universe. In this work, we investigate the impact future gravitational-wave observatories will have on cosmology. Third-generation observatories…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-03 Zhi-Qiang You , Xing-Jiang Zhu , Gregory Ashton , Eric Thrane , Zong-Hong Zhu

The simultaneous detection of gravitational waves and light from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 led to independent measurements of distance and redshift, providing a direct estimate of the Hubble constant $H_0$ that does not rely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-20 Mattia Bulla , Michael W. Coughlin , Suhail Dhawan , Tim Dietrich

The blossoming field of joint gravitational wave and electromagnetic (GW-EM) astronomy is one of the most promising in astronomy. The first, and only, joint GW-EM event GW170817 provided remarkable science returns that still continue to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-08 Philip S. Cowperthwaite , Hsin-Yu Chen , Ben Margalit , Raffaella Margutti , Morgan May , Brian Metzger , Chris Pankow

Detection of quasi-monochromatic, long-duration (continuous) gravitational wave radiation emitted by, e.g., asymmetric rotating neutron stars in our Galaxy requires a long observation time to distinguish it from the detector's noise. If…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-29 Sudhagar Suyamprakasam , Sreekanth Harikumar , Paweł Ciecieląg , Przemysław Figura , Michał Bejger , Marek Biesiada

In order to extract information about the properties of compact binaries, we must estimate the noise power spectral density of gravitational-wave data, which depends on the properties of the gravitational-wave detector. In practice, it is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-18 Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane

Continuous gravitational waves from rapidly rotating neutron stars are on the new frontiers of gravitational wave astrophysics and have strong connections to electromagnetic astronomy, nuclear astrophysics, and condensed matter physics. In…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-13 Benjamin J. Owen

We investigate the synergy of upcoming galaxy surveys and gravitational wave (GW) experiments in constraining late-time cosmology, examining the cross-correlations between the weak lensing of gravitational waves (GW-WL) and the galaxy…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Anna Balaudo , Alice Garoffolo , Matteo Martinelli , Suvodip Mukherjee , Alessandra Silvestri

The recent claim by BICEP2 of evidence for primordial gravitational waves from inflation has focused interest on the potential for early-Universe cosmology using observations of gravitational waves. In addition to cosmic microwave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-07-11 John T. Giblin , Eric Thrane

The coalescence of binary neutron stars (BNS) is a prolific source of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation, offering a dual observational window into the Universe. Lowering the signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) threshold…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Yun-Fei Du , Emre Seyit Yorgancioglu , Jin-Hui Rao , Ankit Kumar , Shu-Xu Yi , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Shu Zhang

Fast and effective localization of gravitational wave (GW) events could play a crucial role in identifying possible electromagnetic counterparts, and thereby help usher in an era of GW multi-messenger astronomy. We discuss an algorithm for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-08 Hsin-Yu Chen , Daniel E. Holz

There is significant benefit to be gained by pursuing multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations. In order to undertake electromagnetic follow-ups of gravitational wave signals, it will be necessary…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-07-06 Stephen Fairhurst

Clustering measurements of Gravitational Wave (GW) mergers in Luminosity Distance Space can be used in the future as a powerful tool for Cosmology. We consider tomographic measurements of the Angular Power Spectrum of mergers both in an…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 S. Libanore , M. C. Artale , D. Karagiannis , M. Liguori , N. Bartolo , Y. Bouffanais , N. Giacobbo , M. Mapelli , S. Matarrese

Gravitational-wave data from advanced-era interferometric detectors consists of background Gaussian noise, frequent transient artefacts, and rare astrophysical signals. Multiple search algorithms exist to detect the signals from compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-13 Gregory Ashton , Ann-Kristin Malz , Nicolo Colombo