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Gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences are most efficiently identified through matched filter searches, which match the data against a pre-generated bank of gravitational-wave templates. Although different techniques…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-03-31 Connor McIsaac , Charlie Hoy , Ian Harry

The advanced world-wide network of gravitational waves (GW) observatories is scheduled to begin operations within the current decade. Thanks to their improved sensitivity, they promise to yield a number of detections and thus to open a new…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Walter Del Pozzo

We investigate the prospects for joint low-latency gravitational wave (GW) detection and prompt electromagnetic (EM) follow-up observations of coalescing binary neutron stars (BNSs). For BNS mergers associated with short duration gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Q. Chu , E. J. Howell , A. Rowlinson , H. Gao , B. Zhang , S. J. Tingay , M. Boer , L. Wen

Strong gravitational lensing by galaxies provides us with a unique opportunity to understand the nature of gravity on galactic and extra-galactic scales. In this paper, we propose a new multimessenger approach using data from both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-08 Tao Yang , Bin Hu , Rong-Gen Cai , Bin Wang

There are at present ${\cal O}(100)$ gravitational-wave candidates from compact binary mergers reported in the astronomical literature. As detector sensitivities are improved, the catalog will swell in size: first to ${\cal O}(1000)$ events…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-08-01 A. Makai Baker , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane , Gregory Ashton , Jesmigel Cantos , Lewis Lakerink , Asher Leslie , Gregory B. Poole , Thomas Reichardt

Gravitational waves detected by advanced ground-based detectors have allowed studying the universe in a way which is fully complementary to electromagnetic observations. As more sources are detected, it will be possible to measure…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-07-25 Salvatore Vitale , Chris Whittle

One of the goals of gravitational-wave astronomy is simultaneous detection of gravitational-wave signals from merging compact-object binaries and the electromagnetic transients from these mergers. With the next generation of advanced…

A crucial component to maximizing the science gain from the multi-messenger follow-up of gravitational-wave (GW) signals from compact binary mergers is the prompt discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart. Ideally, the GW detection and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-06 Shasvath J. Kapadia , Mukesh Kumar Singh , Md Arif Shaikh , Deep Chatterjee , Parameswaran Ajith

Continuous gravitational waves have the potential to transform gravitational wave astronomy and yield fresh insights into astrophysics, nuclear and particle physics, and condensed matter physics. We evaluate their detectability by combining…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-01-05 Benjamin J. Owen , Binod Rajbhandari

Coincident observations with gravitational wave (GW) detectors and other astronomical instruments are in the focus of the experiments with the network of LIGO, Virgo and GEO detectors. They will become a necessary part of the future GW…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-25 S. Klimenko , G. Vedovato , M. Drago , G. Mazzolo , G. Mitselmakher , C. Pankow , G. Prodi , V. Re , F. Salemi , I. Yakushin

Gravitational-wave astronomy will soon become a new tool for observing the Universe. Detecting and interpreting gravitational waves will require deep theoretical insights into astronomical sources. The past three decades have seen…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-04-03 Alessandra Buonanno , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Since the very beginning of astronomy the location of objects on the sky has been a fundamental observational quantity that has been taken for granted. While precise two dimensional positional information is easy to obtain for observations…

The Gravitational Wave (GW) universe contains a wealth of sources which, with the proper treatment, will open up the universe as never before. By observing massive black hole binaries to high redshifts, we should begin to explore the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-22 Edward K. Porter

Globular clusters (GCs) are crucial for studying stellar dynamics and galactic structure, yet precise measurements of their distances and masses are often limited by uncertainties in electromagnetic (EM) observations. We present a novel…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-08-07 Jie Wu , Yao Xiao , Mengfei Sun , Jin Li

Gravitational waves (GWs) cause the apparent position of distant stars to oscillate with a characteristic pattern on the sky. Astrometric measurements (e.g. those made by Gaia) therefore provide a new way to search for GWs. The main…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-08 Christopher J. Moore , Deyan P. Mihaylov , Anthony Lasenby , Gerard Gilmore

In this work we have investigated the synergy between Stage-IV galaxy surveys and future GW observatories for constraining the underlying cosmological model of the Universe, focussing on photometric galaxy clustering, cosmic shear and GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-28 Matteo Beltrame , Marco Bonici , Carmelita Carbone

Gravitational waves emitted during compact binary coalescences are a promising source for gravitational-wave detector networks. The accuracy with which the location of the source on the sky can be inferred from gravitational wave data is a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-17 K. Grover , S. Fairhurst , B. F. Farr , I. Mandel , C. Rodriguez , T. Sidery , A. Vecchio

Gravitational Wave (GW) astronomy promises to observe different kinds of astrophysical sources. Here we explore the possibility of detection of GWs from hyperbolic interactions of compact stars with ground-based interferometric detectors.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-29 Sajal Mukherjee , Sanjit Mitra , Sourav Chatterjee

[Abridged] This study presents the first Bayesian investigation of the accuracy with which the cosmological parameters can be measured using information coming \emph{only} from the gravitational wave observations of binary neutron star…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-02-08 Walter Del Pozzo , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Chris Messenger