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Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) observed by {\it Swift} are potentially revealing the first insight into cataclysmic compact object mergers. To ultimately acquire a fundamental understanding of these events requires pan-spectral observations…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 David Coward , Eric Howell , Tsvi Piran , Giulia Stratta , Marica Branchesi , Omer Bromberg , Bruce Gendre , Ronald Burman , Dafne Guetta

We investigate current and future prospects for coincident detection of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves (GWs). Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are believed to originate from mergers of compact star binaries involving neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-18 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros , Kenta Kiuchi

Gravitational waves (GW) from eccentric binaries have intricate signals encoding important features about the location, creation and evolution of the sources. Eccentricity shortens the merger time, making the emitted GW statistically…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-13 Dillon Buskirk , Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton

The emission of gravitational waves (GWs) during single-single close encounters in galactic nuclei (GNs) leads to the formation and rapid merger of highly eccentric stellar-mass black hole (BH) binaries. The distinct distribution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 László Gondán , Bence Kocsis

Wide, highly eccentric ($e>0.9$) compact binaries can naturally arise as progenitors of gravitational wave (GW) mergers. These systems are expected to have a significant population in the mHz band (e.g., $\sim 3-45$ detectable stellar-mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-28 Zeyuan Xuan , Smadar Naoz , Alvin K. Y. Li , Bence Kocsis , Erik Petigura , Alan M. Knee , Jess McIver , Kyle Kremer , Will M. Farr

We investigate the merging rates of compact binaries in galaxies, and the related detection rate of gravitational wave (GW) events with AdvLIGO/Virgo and with the Einstein Telescope. To this purpose, we rely on three basic ingredients: (i)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-09-04 L. Boco , A. Lapi , S. Goswami , F. Perrotta , C. Baccigalupi , L. Danese

The third observing run of the LIGO/Virgo/KARGA collaboration reported a few neutron star - black hole (NSBH) merger events. While NSBH mergers have yet to receive extensive theoretical attention, they may have a promising electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Erez Michaely , Smadar Naoz

Short, hard gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to originate from the coalescence of two neutron stars (NSs) or a NS and a black hole (BH). If this scenario is correct, then short GRBs will be accompanied by the emission of strong…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-04-26 Alexander Dietz , Nickolas Fotopoulos , Leo Singer , Curt Cutler

The binary neutron star merger responsible for the gravitational wave event, GW170817, strengthened the merger association with short-duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) following the detection of the SGRB counterpart, GRB 170817A. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-02 Soheb Mandhai , Nial Tanvir , Gavin Lamb , Andrew Levan , David Tsang

Gravitational wave (GW) and short Gamma Ray Burst (sGRB) observations provide us with complementary views of compact object mergers. The paucity of binary neutron star merger (BNS) detections in the latest LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-17 Keerthi Kunnumkai , Antonella Palmese , Brendan O'Connor , Amanda Farah , Ignacio Magana Hernandez

Stochastic gravitational-wave backgrounds (SGWBs) derive from the superposition of numerous individually unresolved gravitational-wave (GW) signals. Detecting SGWBs provides us with invaluable information about astrophysics, cosmology, and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-09-26 Bei Zhou , Luca Reali , Emanuele Berti , Mesut Çalışkan , Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Marc Kamionkowski , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The detection of the events GW150914 and GW151226, both consistent with the merger of a binary black hole system (BBH), opened the era of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy. Besides BBHs, the most promising GW sources are the coalescences of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-07 Barbara Patricelli , Massimiliano Razzano , Giancarlo Cella , Francesco Fidecaro , Elena Pian , Marica Branchesi , Antonio Stamerra

One of the possible origins of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is merging of compact binaries, and the effect of large kick velocity is a signature that can be used as an observational test for this hypothesis. Intracluster SGRBs that…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuu Niino , Tomonori Totani

We investigate the prospects of observing residual eccentricity in a population of compact binaries by calculating the power in the eccentric harmonics, following the methodology in arXiv:2411.04187. Although most observed compact binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-09 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Ben G. Patterson , Stephen Fairhurst

The observed binary black hole (BBH) mergers indicate a large Galactic progenitor population continuously evolving from large orbital separations and low gravitational wave (GW) frequencies to the final merger phase. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-04-19 Xiao Fang , Todd A. Thompson , Christopher M. Hirata

The detection of GW170817/GRB170817A implied the strong association between short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) and binary neutron star (BNS) mergers which produce gravitational waves (GWs). More evidence is needed to confirm the association and…

The merger of compact binary stars produces short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs), involving channels such as neutron star - neutron star (BNS) and neutron star - black hole (NS-BH). The association between sGRB 170817A and gravitational wave GW…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Qin-Mei Li , Qi-Bin Sun

An enormous number of compact binary systems, spanning from stellar to supermassive levels, emit substantial gravitational waves during their final evolutionary stages, thereby creating a stochastic gravitational wave background (SGWB). We…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-05 Zhencheng Li , Zhen Jiang , Xi-Long Fan , Yun Chen , Liang Gao , Qi Guo , Shenghua Yu

The joint detection of GW 170817 and GRB 170817A indicated that at least a fraction of short gamma ray bursts (SGRBs) originate from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. One possible remnant of a BNS merger is a rapidly rotating, strongly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Liang-Duan Liu , He Gao , Bing Zhang

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries produce gravitational-wave (GW) emission and outflows with significant kinetic energies. These outflows result in radio emissions through synchrotron radiation. We explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Kenta Hotokezaka , Samaya Nissanke , Gregg Hallinan , T. Joseph W. Lazio , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran