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Search for events in XENON1T associated with Gravitational Waves

We perform a blind search for particle signals in the XENON1T dark matter detector that occur close in time to gravitational wave signals in the LIGO and Virgo observatories. No particle signal is observed in the nuclear recoil, electronic…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-10-30 XENON Collaboration , E. Aprile , K. Abe , S. Ahmed Maouloud , L. Althueser , B. Andrieu , E. Angelino , J. R. Angevaare , V. C. Antochi , D. Antoń Martin , F. Arneodo , L. Baudis , A. L. Baxter , M. Bazyk , L. Bellagamba , R. Biondi , A. Bismark , E. J. Brookes , A. Brown , S. Bruenner , G. Bruno , R. Budnik , T. K. Bui , C. Cai , J. M. R. Cardoso , A. P. Cimental Chavez , A. P. Colijn , J. Conrad , J. J. Cuenca-García , V. D'Andrea , M. P. Decowski , P. Di Gangi , S. Diglio , K. Eitel , A. Elykov , S. Farrell , A. D. Ferella , C. Ferrari , H. Fischer , M. Flierman , W. Fulgione , C. Fuselli , P. Gaemers , R. Gaior , A. Gallo Rosso , M. Galloway , F. Gao , R. Glade-Beucke , L. Grandi , J. Grigat , H. Guan , M. Guida , R. Hammann , A. Higuera , C. Hils , L. Hoetzsch , N. F. Hood , J. Howlett , M. Iacovacci , Y. Itow , J. Jakob , F. Joerg , A. Joy , M. Kara , P. Kavrigin , S. Kazama , M. Kobayashi , G. Koltman , A. Kopec , F. Kuger , H. Landsman , R. F. Lang , D. G. Layos Carlos , L. Levinson , I. Li , S. Li , S. Liang , S. Lindemann , M Lindner , K. Liu , J. Loizeau , F. Lombardi , J. Long , J. A. M. Lopes , Y. Ma , C. Macolino , J. Mahlstedt , A. Mancuso , L. Manenti , F. Marignetti , T. Marrodán Undagoitia , K. Martens , J. Masbou , D. Masson , E. Masson , S. Mastroianni , M. Messina , K. Miuchi , A. Molinario , S. Moriyama , K. Morå , Y. Mosbacher , M. Murra , J. Müller , K. Ni , U. Oberlack , B. Paetsch , J. Palacio , Q. Pellegrini , R. Peres , C Peters , J. Pienaar , M. Pierre , G. Plante , T. R. Pollmann , J. Qi , J. Qin , D. Ramírez García , J. Shi , R. Singh , L. Sanchez , J. M. F. dos Santos , I. Sarnoff , G. Sartorelli , J. Schreiner , D. Schulte , P. Schulte , H. Schulze Eißing , M. Schumann , L. Scotto Lavina , M. Selvi , F. Semeria , P. Shagin , S. Shi , E. Shockley , M. Silva , H. Simgen , A. Takeda , P. -L. Tan , A. Terliuk , D. Thers , F. Toschi , G. Trinchero , C. Tunnell , F. Tönnies , K. Valerius , G. Volta , C. Weinheimer , M. Weiss , D. Wenz , C. Wittweg , T. Wolf , V. H. S. Wu , Y. Xing , D. Xu , Z. Xu , M. Yamashita , L. Yang , J. Ye , L. Yuan , G. Zavattini , M. Zhong , T. Zhu

Extended search for supernova-like neutrinos in NOvA coincident with LIGO/Virgo detections

A search is performed for supernova-like neutrino interactions coincident with 76 gravitational wave events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration. For 40 of these events, full readout of the time around the gravitational wave is…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-02-17 M. A. Acero , P. Adamson , L. Aliaga , N. Anfimov , A. Antoshkin , E. Arrieta-Diaz , L. Asquith , A. Aurisano , A. Back , C. Backhouse , M. Baird , N. Balashov , P. Baldi , B. A. Bambah , S. Bashar , K. Bays , R. Bernstein , V. Bhatnagar , B. Bhuyan , J. Bian , J. Blair , A. C. Booth , R. Bowles , C. Bromberg , N. Buchanan , A. Butkevich , S. Calvez , T. J. Carroll , E. Catano-Mur , B. C. Choudhary , A. Christensen , T. E. Coan , M. Colo , L. Corwin , L. Cremonesi , G. S. Davies , P. F. Derwent , P. Ding , Z. Djurcic , M. Dolce , D. Doyle , D. Dueñas Tonguino , E. C. Dukes , H. Duyang , S. Edayath , R. Ehrlich , M. Elkins , E. Ewart , G. J. Feldman , P. Filip , J. Franc , M. J. Frank , H. R. Gallagher , R. Gandrajula , F. Gao , A. Giri , R. A. Gomes , M. C. Goodman , V. Grichine , M. Groh , R. Group , B. Guo , A. Habig , F. Hakl , A. Hall , J. Hartnell , R. Hatcher , A. Hatzikoutelis , H. Hausner , K. Heller , V Hewes , A. Himmel , A. Holin , J. Huang , B. Jargowsky , J. Jarosz , F. Jediny , C. Johnson , M. Judah , I. Kakorin , D. Kalra , D. M. Kaplan , A. Kalitkina , R. Keloth , O. Klimov , L. W. Koerner , L. Kolupaeva , S. Kotelnikov , R. Kralik , Ch. Kullenberg , M. Kubu , A. Kumar , C. D. Kuruppu , V. Kus , T. Lackey , K. Lang , P. Lasorak , J. Lesmeister , S. Lin , A. Lister , J. Liu , M. Lokajicek , S. Magill , M. Manrique Plata , W. A. Mann , M. L. Marshak , M. Martinez-Casales , V. Matveev , B. Mayes , D. P. Méndez , M. D. Messier , H. Meyer , T. Miao , W. H. Miller , S. R. Mishra , A. Mislivec , R. Mohanta , A. Moren , A. Morozova , W. Mu , L. Mualem , M. Muether , S. Mufson , K. Mulder , D. Naples , N. Nayak , J. K. Nelson , R. Nichol , E. Niner , A. Norman , A. Norrick , T. Nosek , H. Oh , A. Olshevskiy , T. Olson , J. Ott , J. Paley , R. B. Patterson , G. Pawloski , O. Petrova , R. Petti , D. D. Phan , R. K. Plunkett , J. C. C. Porter , A. Rafique , F. Psihas , V. Raj , M. Rajaoalisoa , B. Ramson , B. Rebel , P. Rojas , V. Ryabov , O. Samoylov , M. C. Sanchez , S. Sánchez Falero , P. Shanahan , A. Sheshukov , P. Singh , V. Singh , E. Smith , J. Smolik , P. Snopok , N. Solomey , A. Sousa , K. Soustruznik , M. Strait , L. Suter , A. Sutton , S. Swain , C. Sweeney , B. Tapia Oregui , P. Tas , T. Thakore , R. B. Thayyullathil , J. Thomas , E. Tiras , J. Tripathi , J. Trokan-Tenorio , A. Tsaris , Y. Torun , J. Urheim , P. Vahle , Z. Vallari , J. Vasel , P. Vokac , T. Vrba , M. Wallbank , T. K. Warburton , M. Wetstein , D. Whittington , D. A. Wickremasinghe , S. G. Wojcicki , J. Wolcott , W. Wu , Y. Xiao , A. Yallappa Dombara , K. Yonehara , S. Yu , Y. Yu , S. Zadorozhnyy , J. Zalesak , Y. Zhang , R. Zwaska

Modelling Populations of Kilonovae

The 2017 detection of a kilonova coincident with gravitational-wave emission has identified neutron star mergers as the major source of the heaviest elements, and dramatically constrained alternative theories of gravity. Observing a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-07 Christian N. Setzer , Hiranya V. Peiris , Oleg Korobkin , Stephan Rosswog

Kilonovae of binary neutron star mergers leading to short-lived remnant neutron star formation

We study kilonova emission from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers for the case that a remnant massive neutron star (MNS) forms and collapses to a black hole within $20$ ms after the onset of the merger (which we refer to as "a short-lived…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-13 Kyohei Kawaguchi , Sho Fujibayashi , Nanae Domoto , Kenta Kiuchi , Masaru Shibata , Shinya Wanajo

Maximising the detection probability of kilonovae associated with gravitational wave observations

Estimates of the source sky location for gravitational wave signals are likely span areas ranging up to hundreds of square degrees or more, making it very challenging for most telescopes to search for counterpart signals in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-20 Man Leong Chan , Yi-Ming Hu , Chris Messenger , Martin Hendry , Ik Siong Heng

GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-Infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger

On 2019 August 14, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo interferometers detected the high-significance gravitational wave (GW) signal S190814bv. The GW data indicated that the event resulted from a neutron star--black hole (NSBH) merger, or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Igor Andreoni , Daniel A. Goldstein , Mansi M. Kasliwal , Peter E. Nugent , Rongpu Zhou , Jeffrey A. Newman , Mattia Bulla , Francois Foucart , Kenta Hotokezaka , Ehud Nakar , Samaya Nissanke , Geert Raaijmakers , Joshua S. Bloom , Kishalay De , Jacob E. Jencson , Charlotte Ward , Tomás Ahumada , Shreya Anand , David A. H. Buckley , Maria D. Caballero-García , Alberto J. Castro-Tirado , Christopher M. Copperwheat , Michael W. Coughlin , S. Bradley Cenko , Mariusz Gromadzki , Youdong D. Hu , Viraj R. Karambelkar , Daniel A. Perley , Yashvi Sharma , Azamat F. Valeev , David O. Cook , U. Christoffer Fremling , Harsh Kumar , Kirsty Taggart , Ashot Bagdasaryan , Jeff Cooke , Aishwarya Dahiwale , Suhail Dhawan , Dougal Dobie , Pradip Gatkine , V. Zach Golkhou , Ariel Goobar , Andreas Guerra Chaves , Matthew Hankins , David L. Kaplan , Albert K. H. Kong , Erik C. Kool , Siddharth Mohite , Jesper Sollerman , Anastasios Tzanidakis , Sara Webb , Keming Zhang

The Electromagnetic Counterpart of the Binary Neutron Star Merger LIGO/VIRGO GW170817. III. Optical and UV Spectra of a Blue Kilonova From Fast Polar Ejecta

We present optical and ultraviolet spectra of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave (GW) source, the binary neutron star merger GW170817. Spectra were obtained nightly between 1.5 and 9.5 days post-merger, using the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-17 M. Nicholl , E. Berger , D. Kasen , B. D. Metzger , J. Elias , C. Briceno , K. D. Alexander , P. K. Blanchard , R. Chornock , P. S. Cowperthwaite , T. Eftekhari , W. Fong , R. Margutti , V. A. Villar , P. K. G. Williams , W. Brown , J. Annis , A. Bahramian , D. Brout , D. A. Brown , H. -Y. Chen , J. C. Clemens , E. Dennihy , B. Dunlap , D. E. Holz , E. Marchesini , F. Massaro , N. Moskowitz , I. Pelisoli , A. Rest , F. Ricci , M. Sako , M. Soares-Santos , J. Strader

GECKO Follow-up Observation of the Binary Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger Candidate S230518h

The gravitational wave (GW) event S230518h is a potential binary neutron star-black hole merger (NSBH) event that was detected during engineering run 15 (ER15), which served as the commissioning period before the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) O4a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-30 Gregory S. H. Paek , Myungshin Im , Mankeun Jeong , Seo-Won Chang , Martin Moonkuk Hur , YoungPyo Hong , Sophia Kim , Jaewon Lee , Dongjin Lee , Seong-Heon Lee , Jae-Hun Jung , Joonho Kim , Hyung Mok Lee , Chung-Uk Lee , Seung-Lee Kim

A search for gravitationally lensed supernovae within the Zwicky Transient Facility public survey

Strong gravitational lensing of supernovae is exceedingly rare. To date, only a handful of lensed supernovae are known. Despite this, lensed supernovae have emerged as a promising method for measuring the current expansion rate of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 M. R. Magee , A. Sainz de Murieta , T. E. Collett , W. Enzi

Neutron star-black hole coalescence rate inferred from macronova/kilonova observations

Neutron star$-$black hole (NS$-$BH) coalescences are widely believed to be promising gravitational wave sources in the era of advanced detectors of LIGO/Virgo but such binaries have never been directly detected yet. Evidence for NS$-$BH…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Xiang Li , Yi-Ming Hu , Zhi-Ping Jin , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

IceCube Search for Neutrinos Coincident with Compact Binary Mergers from LIGO-Virgo's First Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog

Using the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, we search for high-energy neutrino emission coincident with compact binary mergers observed by the LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave (GW) detectors during their first and second observing runs. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-14 M. G. Aartsen , M. Ackermann , J. Adams , J. A. Aguilar , M. Ahlers , M. Ahrens , C. Alispach , K. Andeen , T. Anderson , I. Ansseau , G. Anton , C. Argüelles , J. Auffenberg , S. Axani , H. Bagherpour , X. Bai , A. Balagopal V. , A. Barbano , I. Bartos , S. W. Barwick , B. Bastian , V. Baum , S. Baur , R. Bay , J. J. Beatty , K. -H. Becker , J. Becker Tjus , S. BenZvi , D. Berley , E. Bernardini , D. Z. Besson , G. Binder , D. Bindig , E. Blaufuss , S. Blot , C. Bohm , S. Böser , O. Botner , J. Böttcher , E. Bourbeau , J. Bourbeau , F. Bradascio , J. Braun , S. Bron , J. Brostean-Kaiser , A. Burgman , J. Buscher , R. S. Busse , T. Carver , C. Chen , E. Cheung , D. Chirkin , S. Choi , B. A. Clark , K. Clark , L. Classen , A. Coleman , G. H. Collin , J. M. Conrad , P. Coppin , K. R. Corley , P. Correa , S. Countryman , D. F. Cowen , R. Cross , P. Dave , C. De Clercq , J. J. DeLaunay , H. Dembinski , K. Deoskar , S. De Ridder , P. Desiati , K. D. de Vries , G. de Wasseige , M. de With , T. DeYoung , S. Dharani , A. Diaz , J. C. Díaz-Vélez , H. Dujmovic , M. Dunkman , E. Dvorak , B. Eberhardt , T. Ehrhardt , P. Eller , R. Engel , P. A. Evenson , S. Fahey , A. R. Fazely , J. Felde , K. Filimonov , C. Finley , D. Fox , A. Franckowiak , E. Friedman , A. Fritz , T. K. Gaisser , J. Gallagher , E. Ganster , S. Garrappa , L. Gerhardt , K. Ghorbani , T. Glauch , T. Glüsenkamp , A. Goldschmidt , J. G. Gonzalez , D. Grant , T. Grégoire , Z. Griffith , S. Griswold , M. Günder , M. Gündüz , C. Haack , A. Hallgren , R. Halliday , L. Halve , F. Halzen , K. Hanson , A. Haungs , S. Hauser , D. Hebecker , D. Heereman , P. Heix , K. Helbing , R. Hellauer , F. Henningsen , S. Hickford , J. Hignight , G. C. Hill , K. D. Hoffman , R. Hoffmann , T. Hoinka , B. Hokanson-Fasig , K. Hoshina , F. Huang , M. Huber , T. Huber , K. Hultqvist , M. Hünnefeld , R. Hussain , S. In , N. Iovine , A. Ishihara , M. Jansson , G. S. Japaridze , M. Jeong , K. Jero , B. J. P. Jones , F. Jonske , R. Joppe , D. Kang , W. Kang , A. Kappes , D. Kappesser , T. Karg , M. Karl , A. Karle , U. Katz , M. Kauer , A. Keivani , M. Kellermann , J. L. Kelley , A. Kheirandish , J. Kim , T. Kintscher , J. Kiryluk , T. Kittler , S. R. Klein , R. Koirala , H. Kolanoski , L. Köpke , C. Kopper , S. Kopper , D. J. Koskinen , P. Koundal , M. Kowalski , K. Krings , G. Krückl , N. Kulacz , N. Kurahashi , A. Kyriacou , J. L. Lanfranchi , M. J. Larson , F. Lauber , J. P. Lazar , K. Leonard , A. Leszczynska , Y. Li , Q. R. Liu , E. Lohfink , C. J. Lozano Mariscal , L. Lu , F. Lucarelli , A. Ludwig , J. Lünemann , W. Luszczak , Y. Lyu , W. Y. Ma , J. Madsen , G. Maggi , K. B. M. Mahn , Y. Makino , P. Mallik , K. Mallot , S. Mancina , I. C. Mariş , S. Marka , Z. Marka , R. Maruyama , K. Mase , R. Maunu , F. McNally , K. Meagher , M. Medici , A. Medina , M. Meier , S. Meighen-Berger , G. Merino , J. Merz , T. Meures , J. Micallef , D. Mockler , G. Momenté , T. Montaruli , R. W. Moore , R. Morse , M. Moulai , P. Muth , R. Nagai , U. Naumann , G. Neer , L. V. Nguyen , H. Niederhausen , M. U. Nisa , S. C. Nowicki , D. R. Nygren , A. Obertacke Pollmann , M. Oehler , A. Olivas , A. O'Murchadha , E. O'Sullivan , T. Palczewski , H. Pandya , D. V. Pankova , N. Park , P. Peiffer , C. Pérez de los Heros , S. Philippen , D. Pieloth , S. Pieper , E. Pinat , A. Pizzuto , M. Plum , Y. Popovych , A. Porcelli , P. B. Price , G. T. Przybylski , C. Raab , A. Raissi , M. Rameez , L. Rauch , K. Rawlins , I. C. Rea , A. Rehman , R. Reimann , B. Relethford , M. Renschler , G. Renzi , E. Resconi , W. Rhode , M. Richman , S. Robertson , M. Rongen , C. Rott , T. Ruhe , D. Ryckbosch , D. Rysewyk Cantu , I. Safa , S. E. Sanchez Herrera , A. Sandrock , J. Sandroos , M. Santander , S. Sarkar , S. Sarkar , K. Satalecka , M. Scharf , M. Schaufel , H. Schieler , P. Schlunder , T. Schmidt , A. Schneider , J. Schneider , F. G. Schröder , L. Schumacher , S. Sclafani , D. Seckel , S. Seunarine , S. Shefali , M. Silva , R. Snihur , J. Soedingrekso , D. Soldin , M. Song , G. M. Spiczak , C. Spiering , J. Stachurska , M. Stamatikos , T. Stanev , R. Stein , J. Stettner , A. Steuer , T. Stezelberger , R. G. Stokstad , A. Stössl , N. L. Strotjohann , T. Stürwald , T. Stuttard , G. W. Sullivan , I. Taboada , F. Tenholt , S. Ter-Antonyan , A. Terliuk , S. Tilav , K. Tollefson , L. Tomankova , C. Tönnis , S. Toscano , D. Tosi , A. Trettin , M. Tselengidou , C. F. Tung , A. Turcati , R. Turcotte , C. F. Turley , B. Ty , E. Unger , M. A. Unland Elorrieta , M. Usner , J. Vandenbroucke , W. Van Driessche , D. van Eijk , N. van Eijndhoven , J. van Santen , S. Verpoest , D. Veske , M. Vraeghe , C. Walck , A. Wallace , M. Wallraff , N. Wandkowsky , T. B. Watson , C. Weaver , A. Weindl , M. J. Weiss , J. Weldert , C. Wendt , J. Werthebach , B. J. Whelan , N. Whitehorn , K. Wiebe , C. H. Wiebusch , L. Wille , D. R. Williams , L. Wills , M. Wolf , J. Wood , T. R. Wood , K. Woschnagg , G. Wrede , J. Wulff , D. L. Xu , X. W. Xu , Y. Xu , J. P. Yanez , G. Yodh , S. Yoshida , T. Yuan , M. Zöcklein

A Galaxy-Targeted Search for the Optical Counterpart of the Candidate NS-BH Merger S190814bv with Magellan

On 2019 August 14 the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo gravitational wave interferometer announced the detection of a binary merger, S190814bv, with a low false alarm rate (FAR) of about 1 in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-14 S. Gomez , G. Hosseinzadeh , P. S. Cowperthwaite , V. A. Villar , E. Berger , T. Gardner , K. D. Alexander , R. Chornock , M. R. Drout , T. Eftekhari , W. Fong , K. Gill , R. Margutti , M. Nicholl , K. Paterson , P. K. G. Williams

Gravitational-wave and electromagnetic detections in the context of the CosmoDC2 LSST synthetic catalog

We release CosmoDC2_BCO, a synthetic catalog of gravitational-wave events and electromagnetic counterparts associated with galaxies from CosmoDC2. The catalog provides intrinsic and extrinsic source parameters, signal-to-noise ratios,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-16 Ranier Menote , Valerio Marra , Riccardo Sturani , Felipe Andrade-Oliveira , Clécio R. Bom , The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

Constraining the Fraction of LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Binary Black Hole Merger Events Associated with Active Galactic Nucleus Flares

The formation channels of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) network remain uncertain. While BBH mergers occurring inside active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks may interact with surrounding gas and generate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-19 Liang-Gui Zhu , Lei He , Xian Chen , Wen Zhao

A search for an optical counterpart to the gravitational wave event GW151226

We present a search for an electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave source GW151226. Using the Pan-STARRS1 telescope we mapped out 290 square degrees in the optical i_ps filter starting 11.5hr after the LIGO information release…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 S. J. Smartt , K. C. Chambers , K. W. Smith , M. E. Huber , D. R. Young , T. -W. Chen , C. Inserra , D. E. Wright , M. Coughlin , L. Denneau , H. Flewelling , A. Heinze , A. Jerkstrand , E. A. Magnier , K. Maguire , B. Mueller , A. Rest , A. Sherstyuk , B. Stalder , A. S. B. Schultz , C. W. Stubbs , J. Tonry , C. Waters , R. Wainscoat , M. Della Valle , M. Dennefeld , G. Dimitriadis , R. E. Firth , M. Fraser , C. Frohmaier , A. Gal-Yam , J. Harmanen , E. Kankare , R. Kotak , M. Kromer , I. Mandel , J. Sollerman , B. Gibson , N. Primak , M. Willman

Tracing the light: Identification for the optical counterpart candidates of binary black-holes during O3

The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are widely considered the ideal environments for binary black hole (BBH) mergers and the only plausible sites for their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts. Graham et al.(2023) identified…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-04 Lei He , Zhengyan Liu , Rui Niu , Bingzhou Gao , Mingshen Zhou , Purun Zou , Runduo Liang , Wen Zhao , Ning Jiang , Zhen-Yi Cai , Zi-Gao Dai , Ye-Fei Yuan

GROWTH on S190426c II: GROWTH-India Telescope search for an optical counterpart with a custom image reduction and candidate vetting pipeline

S190426c / GW190426_152155 was the first probable neutron star - black hole merger candidate detected by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. We undertook a tiled search for optical counterparts of this event using the 0.7m GROWTH-India Telescope.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-14 Harsh Kumar , Varun Bhalerao , G. C. Anupama , Sudhanshu Barway , Michael W. Coughlin , Kishalay De , Kunal Deshmukh , Anirban Dutta , Daniel A Goldstein , Adeem Jassani , Simran Joharle , Viraj Karambelker , Maitreya Khandagale , Brajesh Kumar , Divita Saraogi , Yashvi Sharma , Vedant Shenoy , Leo singer , Avinash Singh , Gaurav Waratkar

Serendipitous Discoveries of Kilonovae in the LSST Main Survey: Maximising Detections of Sub-Threshold Gravitational Wave Events

We investigate the ability of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to discover kilonovae (kNe) from binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers, focusing on serendipitous detections in the Wide-Fast-Deep (WFD)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-02-19 Christian N. Setzer , Rahul Biswas , Hiranya V. Peiris , Stephan Rosswog , Oleg Korobkin , Ryan T. Wollaeger

Contribution to the 2025 Gravitation session of the 59th Rencontres de Moriond: Limits on the Ejecta Mass During the Search for Kilonovae Associated with Neutron Star-Black Hole Mergers

This study evaluates ejecta properties from multi-messenger observations to understand the absence of detectable KN associated to the four NSBH candidates from May 2023 to July 2024: we use GW public information and joint observations taken…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-27 Marion Pillas

Capability of Searching for Kilonova Associated with a Short Gamma-ray Burst by SVOM

In spite of the importance of studying the cosmic generation of heavy elements through the r-process, the detection of kilonova resulted from a merger of neutron star binaries is still a challenge task. In this paper, we show that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-25 J. Wang , L. P. Xin , Y. L. Qiu , L. Lan , W. J. Xie , Z. P. Jin , J. Y. Wei