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The detection of the gravitational wave GW170817 defined a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy. For the first time, a gravitational wave transient detected by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-28 Antonio Galvan-Gamez , Nissim Fraija , M. Magdalena Gonzalez

The coincidental detection of the gravitational wave event GW 170817 and the associated gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A marked the advent of multi-messenger astronomy and represented a milestone in the study of GRBs. In this context, the launch…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-23 B. Arcier , JL. Atteia , O. Godet , S. Mate , S. Guillot , N. Dagoneau , J. Rodriguez , D. Gotz , S. Schanne , M. G. Bernardini

The success of the SWIFT/BAT and INTEGRAL missions has definitely opened a new window for follow-up and deep study of the transient gamma-ray sky. This now appears as the access key to important progresses in the area of cosmological…

The Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager on AstroSat has proven to be a very effective all-sky monitor in the hard X-ray regime, detecting over three hundred GRBs and putting highly competitive upper limits on X-ray emissions from gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Y. Sharma , A. Marathe , V. Bhalerao , V. Shenoy , G. Waratkar , D. Nadella , P. Page , P. Hebbar , A. Vibhute , D. Bhattacharya , A. R. Rao , S. Vadawale

The gravitational wave/gamma-ray burst GW/GRB170817 event marked the beginning of the era of multi-messenger astrophysics, in which new observations of Gravitational Waves (GW) are combined with traditional electromagnetic observations from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 F. Fiore , N. Werner , E. Behar

In the era of time-domain, multi-messenger astronomy, the detection of transient events on the high-energy electromagnetic sky has become more important than ever. Previous attempts to systematically search for onboard-untriggered events in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 F. Kunzweiler , B. Biltzinger , J. Greiner , J. M. Burgess

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

At present time Robotic observatory making is of current importance. Having a large field of view and being able to point at anywhere, Robotic astronomical systems are indispensable when they looking for transients like grb, supernovae…

The High Energy Modular Ensemble of Satellites (HERMES) project is aimed to realize a modular X/gamma-ray monitor for transient events, to be placed on-board of a CubeSat bus. This expandable platform will achieve a significant impact on…

We explore the possibility of very long-lived gravitational-wave transients (and detector artifacts) lasting hours to weeks. Such very long signals are both interesting in their own right and as a potential source of systematic error in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Eric Thrane , Vuk Mandic , Nelson Christensen

The gravitational wave GW170817 from a binary neutron star merger and the simultaneous electromagnetic detection of the GRB170817A by Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, opened a new era in the multi-messenger astronomy. Furthermore, the GRBs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-16 Alessandro Drago , Simone Bini , Mariangela Cestelli Guidi , Augusto Marcelli , Valerio Bocci , Emanuele Pace

GW170817-GRB 170817A provided the first observation of gravitational waves from a neutron star merger with associated transient counterparts across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. This discovery demonstrated the long-hypothesized…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-07 M. Pillas , T. Dal Canton , C. Stachie , B. Piotrzkowski , F. Hayes , R. Hamburg , E. Burns , J. Wood , P. A. Duverne , N. Christensen

Here we present the conceptual design of a wide field imager onboard a 6U class CubeSat platform for the study of GRB prompt and afterglow emission and detection of electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational waves in soft X-rays. The…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Tanmoy Chattopadhyay , Abraham D. Falcone , David N. Burrows , Derek B. Fox , David Palmer

Multi-wavelength and multi-messenger astrophysics have experienced rapid growth over the past decade, seeking a complete picture of different cosmic phenomena. Transient sources, in particular, benefit from the input of multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-06 Bernardo Cornejo , Halim Ashkar , Matteo Cerruti , Ilja Jaroschewski , Pierre Pichard , Santiago Pita , Fabian Schussler

The impending era of wide-field radio surveys has the potential to revolutionize our understanding of astrophysical transients. Here we evaluate the prospects of a wide range of planned and hypothetical radio surveys using the properties…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-06 Brian D. Metzger , Peter K. G. Williams , Edo Berger

Linking the previous research that occurred over the last decades, I will try to provide some objective elements to evaluate the innovation of the joint observation of GW170817 and GRB 170817A and their occurrence detection, in light of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-04 Giuseppina Modestino

We have developed a lightweight tool, {\tt RapidGBM}, featuring a web-based interface and capabilities of rapid calculation of Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) visibilities and performance of basic data analysis. It has two key features:…

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

Recent rapid progress in time domain surveys makes it possible to detect various types of explosive transients in the Universe in large numbers, some of which will be gravitationally lensed into multiple images. Although a large number of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-08 Masamune Oguri

The rise of direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs) started a new era in multi-messenger astrophysics. Like GWs, many other astrophysical transient sources suffer from poor localization, which can span tens to thousands of square…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-12 Halim Ashkar , Monica Seglar-Arroyo , Fabian Schüssler , Weizmann Kiendrébéogo , Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne
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