English
Related papers

Related papers: Optimising gravitational waves follow-up using gal…

200 papers

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

Follow-up of gravitational wave alerts has proven to be challenging in the past due to the large uncertainty on the localisation, much larger than the field of view of most instruments. A smart pointing strategy helps to increase the chance…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-15 Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne , Halim Ashkar , Atilla Kaan Alkan , Jayson Mourier , Patrick Reichherzer , Fabian Schüssler , Monica Seglar-Arroyo

Binary neutron stars are among the most promising candidates for joint gravitational-wave and electromagnetic astronomy. The goal of this work is to investigate the strategy of using gravitational wave sky-localizations for binary neutron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-03 Shaon Ghosh , Steven Bloemen , Gijs Nelemans , Paul J. Groot , Larry R. Price

The observation of binary neutron star merger GW170817, along with its optical counterpart, provided the first constraint on the Hubble constant $H_0$ using gravitational wave standard sirens. When no counterpart is identified, a galaxy…

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

With the growing number of gravitational-wave detections and the advent of large galaxy redshift surveys, a new era in cosmology is unfolding. This study explores the synergies between gravitational waves and galaxy surveys to jointly…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-04-02 Nicola Borghi , Michele Mancarella , Michele Moresco , Matteo Tagliazucchi , Francesco Iacovelli , Andrea Cimatti , Michele Maggiore

Soon, the combination of electromagnetic and gravitational signals will open the door to a new era of gravitational-wave (GW) cosmology. It will allow us to test the propagation of tensor perturbations across cosmic time and study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Guadalupe Cañas-Herrera , Omar Contigiani , Valeri Vardanyan

We present GLADE+, an extended version of the GLADE galaxy catalogue introduced in our previous paper for multimessenger searches with advanced gravitational-wave detectors. GLADE+ combines data from six separate but not independent…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 G. Dálya , R. Díaz , F. R. Bouchet , Z. Frei , J. Jasche , G. Lavaux , R. Macas , S. Mukherjee , M. Pálfi , R. S. de Souza , B. D. Wandelt , M. Bilicki , P. Raffai

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

This study proceeds with the development of the technique employing velocity gradients that were identified in (\cite{GL17}, henceforth GL17) as a means of probing magnetic field in interstellar media. We demonstrate a number of practical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-05-25 Ka Ho Yuen , A. Lazarian

The discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the era of GW+EM multi-messenger astronomy. Exploiting this breakthrough requires increasing samples to explore the diversity of…

Typically, stars in galaxies have higher velocities than predicted by Newtonian gravity in conjunction with observable galactic matter. To account for the phenomenon, some researchers modified Newtonian gravitation; others introduced dark…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-10-06 Nadja S. Magalhaes , Fred I. Cooperstock

Searches for gravitational-wave signals are often based on maximizing a detection statistic over a bank of waveform templates, covering a given parameter space with a variable level of correlation. Results are often evaluated using a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-15 Rodrigo Tenorio , Luana M. Modafferi , David Keitel , Alicia M. Sintes

The LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational wave observatories are currently undertaking their O4 observing run offering the opportunity to discover new electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events. We examine the capability of the…

With a reinterpretation of recent results, the GRACE Follow-On mission can be applied to gravitational wave astronomy. Existing GRACE Follow-On data constrain the stochastic gravitational wave background to $\Omega_{GW}<3.3\times10^{7}$ at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-05-27 M. P. Ross , C. A. Hagedorn , E. A. Shaw , A. L. Lockwood , B. M. Iritani , J. G. Lee , K. Venkateswara , J. H. Gundlach

The search for continuous gravitational-wave signals requires the development of techniques that can effectively explore the low-significance regions of the candidate set. In this paper we present the methods that were developed for a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-11 Berit Behnke , Maria Alessandra Papa , Reinhard Prix

As the number of detected gravitational wave sources increase with increasing sensitivity of the gravitational wave observatories, observing strongly lensed pair of events will become a real possibility. Lensed GW events will have very…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-29 Anupreeta More , Surhud More

The strongly lensed gravitational wave (SLGW) is a promising transient phenomenon. However, the long-wave nature of gravitational waves poses a significant challenge in identification of its host galaxy. To tackle this challenge, we propose…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-08 Xikai Shan , Bin Hu , Xuechun Chen , Rong-Gen Cai

We derive new empirical scaling relations between WISE mid-infrared galaxy photometry and well-determined stellar masses from SED modeling of a suite of optical-infrared photometry provided by the DR4 Catalogue of the GAMA-KiDS-VIKING…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-01-18 T. H. Jarrett , M. E. Cluver , Edward N. Taylor , Sabine Bellstedt , A. S. G Robotham , H. F. M. Yao