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The first detection of a binary neutron star merger through gravitational waves and photons marked the dawn of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves, and it greatly increased our insight in different fields of astrophysics and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-01 Stefano Ascenzi , Gor Oganesyan , Marica Branchesi , Riccardo Ciolfi

The post-merger gravitational wave (GW) radiation of the remnant formed in the binary neutron star (BNS) coalescence has not been directly measured, yet. We show in this work that the properties of the BNS involved in GW170817, additionally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-04 Yi-Zhong Fan , Jin-Liang Jiang , Shao-Peng Tang , Zhi-Ping Jin , Da-Ming Wei

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary black hole merger in 2015 September and may soon observe signals from neutron star mergers. There is considerable…

We have performed detailed population synthesis on a large number (20 million) of binary systems in order to investigate the properties of massive double degenerate binaries. We have included new important results in our input physics in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-09 Rasmus Voss , Thomas M. Tauris

We present UV, optical, and NIR photometry of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave source from Advanced LIGO/Virgo, the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Our data set extends from the discovery of the optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-17 P. S. Cowperthwaite , E. Berger , V. A. Villar , B. D. Metzger , M. Nicholl , R. Chornock , P. K. Blanchard , W. Fong , R. Margutti , M. Soares-Santos , K. D. Alexander , S. Allam , J. Annis , D. Brout , D. A. Brown , R. E. Butler , H. -Y. Chen , H. T. Diehl , Z. Doctor , M. R. Drout , T. Eftekhari , B. Farr , D. A. Finley , R. J. Foley , J. A. Frieman , C. L. Fryer , J. García-Bellido , M. S. S. Gill , J. Guillochon , K. Herner , D. E. Holz , D. Kasen , R. Kessler , J. Marriner , T. Matheson , E. H. Neilsen, , E. Quataert , A. Palmese , A. Rest , M. Sako , D. M. Scolnic , N. Smith , D. L. Tucker , P. K. G. Williams , E. Balbinot , J. L. Carlin , E. R. Cook , F. Durret , T. S. Li , P. A. A. Lopes , A. C. C. Lourenço , J. L. Marshall , G. E. Medina , J. Muir , R. R. Muñoz , M. Sauseda , D. J. Schlegel , L. F. Secco , A. K. Vivas , W. Wester , A. Zenteno , Y. Zhang , T. M. C. Abbott , M. Banerji , K. Bechtol , A. Benoit-Lévy , E. Bertin , E. Buckley-Geer , D. L. Burke , D. Capozzi , A. Carnero Rosell , M. Carrasco Kind , F. J. Castander , M. Crocce , C. E. Cunha , C. B. D'Andrea , L. N. da Costa , C. Davis , D. L. DePoy , S. Desai , J. P. Dietrich , A. Drlica-Wagner , T. F. Eifler , A. E. Evrard , E. Fernandez , B. Flaugher , P. Fosalba , E. Gaztanaga , D. W. Gerdes , T. Giannantonio , D. A. Goldstein , D. Gruen , R. A. Gruendl , G. Gutierrez , K. Honscheid , B. Jain , D. J. James , T. Jeltema , M. W. G. Johnson , M. D. Johnson , S. Kent , E. Krause , R. Kron , K. Kuehn , N. Kuropatkin , O. Lahav , M. Lima , H. Lin , M. A. G. Maia , M. March , P. Martini , R. G. McMahon , F. Menanteau , C. J. Miller , R. Miquel , J. J. Mohr , E. Neilsen , R. C. Nichol , R. L. C. Ogando , A. A. Plazas , N. Roe , A. K. Romer , A. Roodman , E. S. Rykoff , E. Sanchez , V. Scarpine , R. Schindler , M. Schubnell , I. Sevilla-Noarbe , M. Smith , R. C. Smith , F. Sobreira , E. Suchyta , M. E. C. Swanson , G. Tarle , D. Thomas , R. C. Thomas , M. A. Troxel , V. Vikram , A. R. Walker , R. H. Wechsler , J. Weller , B. Yanny , J. Zuntz

The first neutron star (NS) merger observed by advanced LIGO and Virgo, GW170817, and its fireworks of electromagnetic counterparts across the entire electromagnetic spectrum marked the beginning of multi-messenger astronomy and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-24 Daniel M. Siegel

The LIGO and Virgo detectors have directly observed gravitational waves from mergers of pairs of stellar-mass black holes, along with a smaller number of mergers involving neutron stars. These observations raise the hope that compact object…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-11 Ilya Mandel , Alison Farmer

The recent LIGO-Virgo detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral event GW170817 and the discovery of its accompanying electromagnetic signals mark a new era for multimessenger astronomy. In the coming years,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-08 Xing-Jiang Zhu , Eric Thrane , Stefan Osłowski , Yuri Levin , Paul D. Lasky

Mergers of binary neutron stars and black hole-neutron star binaries are one of the most promising sources for the ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors and also a high-energy astrophysical phenomenon as illustrated by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-08 Masaru Shibata , Kenta Hotokezaka

We present the results on the search for the coalescence of compact binary mergers with very asymmetric mass configurations using convolutional neural networks and the LIGO/Virgo data for the O3 observation period. Two-dimensional images in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-04-26 M. Andres-Carcasona , A. Menendez-Vazquez , M. Martinez , Ll. M. Mir

We present a search for merging compact binary gravitational-wave sources that produce a signal appearing solely or primarily in a single detector. Past analyses have heavily relied on coincidence between multiple detectors to reduce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-28 Alexander H. Nitz , Thomas Dent , Gareth S. Davies , Ian Harry

Black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries are amongst promising candidates for the joint detection of electromagnetic (EM) signals with gravitational waves (GWs) and are expected to be detected in the near future. Here we study the effect of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Mukul Bhattacharya , Pawan Kumar , George Smoot

Observations of the properties of multiple coalescing neutron stars will simultaneously provide insight into neutron star mass and spin distribution, the neutron star merger rate, and the nuclear equation of state. Not all merging binaries…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-01-08 Daniel Wysocki , Richard O'Shaughnessy , Leslie Wade , Jacob Lange

Significant human and observational resources have been dedicated to electromagnetic followup of gravitational-wave events detected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. As the sensitivity of LIGO and Virgo improves, the rate of sources detected will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-16 Daniel Finstad , Duncan A. Brown

We present Very Large Array (VLA) and Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array ALMA radio observations of GW\,170817, the first Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO)/Virgo gravitational wave (GW) event from a…

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration recently detected gravitational waves (GWs) from the merger of black-hole-neutron-star (BHNS) binary systems GW200105 and GW200115. No coincident electromagnetic (EM) counterparts were detected. While the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Daniel J. D'Orazio , Zoltan Haiman , Janna Levin , Johan Samsing , Alejandro Vigna-Gomez

The development of advanced gravitational wave (GW) observatories, such as Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, provides impetus to refine theoretical predictions for what these instruments might detect. In particular, with the range…

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are the leading model to explain the phenomenology of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), which are among the most luminous explosions in the universe. Recent observations of long-lasting X-ray afterglows of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Daniel M. Siegel , Riccardo Ciolfi

Compact binary coalescences are a promising source of gravitational waves for second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detectors such as advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. These are among the most promising sources for joint…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Michael W. Coughlin , Christopher W. Stubbs

Gravitational wave (GW) observations of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can be used to measure luminosity distances and hence, when coupled with estimates for the mergers' host redshifts, infer the Hubble constant, $H_0$. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-27 Daniel J. Mortlock , Stephen M. Feeney , Hiranya V. Peiris , Andrew R. Williamson , Samaya M. Nissanke