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Observations with next-generation ground-based detectors further enhanced with multi-messenger (electromagnetic and neutrino) detections will allow us to probe new extreme astrophysics. Target sources included: core-collapse supernovae,…

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

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

Gravitational waves (GWs) are expected to play a crucial role in the development of multimessenger astrophysics. The combination of GW observations with other astrophysical triggers, such as from gamma-ray and X-ray satellites,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-28 Eric Chassande-Mottin , Martin Hendry , Patrick J. Sutton , Szabolcs Márka

General relativity (GR) predicts concordant trajectories for photons and gravitational waves (GW). We propose a new multi-messenger avenue (GW-CMB-CMB) to prove this aspect of fundamental physics by cross-correlating the GW signal of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-25 Suvodip Mukherjee , Benjamin D. Wandelt , Joseph Silk

Multi-messenger astrophysics is undergoing a transition towards low-latency searches based on signals that could not individually be established as discoveries. The rapid identification of signals is important in order to initiate timely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-30 Imre Bartos , Doga Veske , Azadeh Keivani , Zsuzsa Marka , Stefan Countryman , Erik Blaufuss , Chad Finley , Szabolcs Marka

The simultaneous detection of electromagnetic and gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars (GW170817 and GRB170817A) has ushered in a new era of "multi-messenger" astronomy, with electromagnetic detections spanning from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-10 Mouza Almualla , Michael W. Coughlin , Shreya Anand , Khalid Alqassimi , Nidhal Guessoum , Leo P. Singer

The first multimessenger observation of a neutron star merger was independently detected in gamma-rays by Fermi-GBM and INTEGRAL SPI-ACS and gravitational waves by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. Gravitational waves are emitted from…

We present a general framework for incorporating astrophysical information into Bayesian parameter estimation techniques used by gravitational wave data analysis to facilitate multi-messenger astronomy. Since the progenitors of transient…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-14 XiLong Fan , Christopher Messenger , Ik Siong Heng

LISA will open the mHz band of gravitational waves (GWs) to the astronomy community. The strong gravity which powers the variety of GW sources in this band is also crucial in a number of important astrophysical processes at the current…

After decades of development, multi-messenger astronomy, the combination of information on cosmic sources from photons, neutrinos, charged particles and gravitational waves, is now an established reality. Within this emerging discipline we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-20 Jim Hinton , Edna Ruiz-Velasco

A milestone of multi-messenger astronomy has been achieved with the detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger accompanied by observations of several associated electromagnetic counterparts. Joint observations can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-28 Chris Pankow , Eve A. Chase , Scott Coughlin , Michael Zevin , Vassiliki Kalogera

We discuss two approaches to searches for gravitational-wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of binary neutron star mergers. The first approach relies on triggering archival searches of GW detector data based on detections of EM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Ilya Mandel , Luke Z. Kelley , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

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 past year has witnessed discovery of the first identified counterparts to a gravitational wave transient (GW 170817A) and a very high-energy neutrino (IceCube-170922A). These source identifications, and ensuing detailed studies, have…

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

Electromagnetic observations of the sky have been the basis for our study of the Universe for millennia, cosmic ray studies are now entering their second century, the first neutrinos from an astrophysical source were identified three…

Multi-messenger astronomy is of great interest. The localization speed of gravitational wave sources is important for the success of electromagnetic follow-up. Although current gravitational wave source localization methods take up to a few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Takuya Tsutsui , Kipp Cannon , Leo Tsukada