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2-OGC: Open Gravitational-wave Catalog of binary mergers from analysis of public Advanced LIGO and Virgo data

We present the second Open Gravitational-wave Catalog (2-OGC) of compact-binary coalescences, obtained from the complete set of public data from Advanced LIGO's first and second observing runs. For the first time we also search public data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-24 Alexander H. Nitz , Thomas Dent , Gareth S. Davies , Sumit Kumar , Collin D. Capano , Ian Harry , Simone Mozzon , Laura Nuttall , Andrew Lundgren , Márton Tápai

Could GRB170817A be really correlated to a NS-NS merging?

The exciting development of gravitational wave (GW) astronomy in the correlation of LIGO and VIRGO detection of GW signals makes possible to expect registration of effects of not only Binary Black Hole (BH) coalescence, but also Binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-25 Daniele Fargion , Maxim Khlopov , Pietro Oliva

Multi-messenger astrophysics in the gravitational-wave era

The observation of GW170817, the first binary neutron star merger observed in both gravitational waves (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) waves, kickstarted the age of multi-messenger GW astronomy. This new technique presents an observationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-20 Geoffrey Mo , Rahul Jayaraman , Danielle Frostig , Michael M. Fausnaugh , Erik Katsavounidis , George R. Ricker

Toward an optimal search strategy of optical and gravitational wave emissions from binary neutron star coalescence

Observations of an optical source coincident with gravitational wave emission detected from a binary neutron star coalescence will improve the confidence of detection, provide host galaxy localisation, and test models for the progenitors of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-16 D. M. Coward , B. Gendre , P. J. Sutton , E. J. Howell , T. Regimbau , M. Laas-Bourez , A. Klotz , M. Boer , M. Branchesi

Gravitational-Wave Localization Alone Probes AGN Origin of Stellar-Mass Black Hole Mergers

Stellar-mass binary black hole mergers are poised to represent the majority of gravitational-wave (GW) observations by Advanced LIGO and Virgo. Probing their origin will be difficult due to the expected lack of electromagnetic emission and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 I. Bartos , Z. Haiman , Z. Marka , B. D. Metzger , N. C. Stone , S. Marka

Constraining the Gravitational-Wave Afterglow From a Binary Neutron Star Coalescence

Binary neutron star mergers are rich laboratories for physics, accessible with ground-based interferometric gravitational-wave detectors such as the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. If a neutron star remnant survives the merger, it can…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-13 Sharan Banagiri , Michael W. Coughlin , James Clark , Paul D. Lasky , M. A. Bizouard , Colm Talbot , Eric Thrane , Vuk Mandic

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. 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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

Localization of binary mergers with gravitational-wave detectors of second and third generation

The observation of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers has established the field of gravitational wave astronomy. It is expected that future networks of gravitational wave detectors will possess great potential in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-06-06 Joseph Mills , Vaibhav Tiwari , Stephen Fairhurst

Joint gravitational wave -- gamma-ray burst detection rates in the aftermath of GW170817

The observational follow-up campaign of the gravitational wave (GW) multi-messenger event GW170817/GRB170817A has shown that the prompt $\gamma$-rays are consistent with a relativistic structured jet observed from a wide viewing angle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 E. J. Howell , K. Ackley , A. Rowlinson , D. Coward

X-ray guided gravitational-wave search for binary neutron star merger remnants

X-ray observations of some short gamma-ray bursts indicate that a long-lived neutron star can form as a remnant of a binary neutron star merger. We develop a gravitational-wave detection pipeline for a long-lived binary neutron star merger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-21 Nikhil Sarin , Paul D. Lasky , Letizia Sammut , Greg Ashton

Early Advanced LIGO binary neutron-star sky localization and parameter estimation

2015 will see the first observations of Advanced LIGO and the start of the gravitational-wave (GW) advanced-detector era. One of the most promising sources for ground-based GW detectors are binary neutron-star (BNS) coalescences. In order…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-06 C P L Berry , B Farr , W M Farr , C-J Haster , I Mandel , H Middleton , L P Singer , A L Urban , A Vecchio , S Vitale , K Cannon , P B Graff , C Hanna , S Mohapatra , C Pankow , L R Price , T Sidery , J Veitch

Testing Gravitational Memory Generation with Compact Binary Mergers

Gravitational memory is an important prediction of classical General Relativity, which is intimately related to asymptotic symmetries at null infinity and the so-called soft graviton theorem first shown by Weinberg. For a given transient…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-08-22 Huan Yang , Denis Martynov

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was observed independently by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, and the…

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Galactic distribution of merging neutron stars and black holes - prospects for short GRB progenitors and LIGO/VIRGO

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

Analysis Framework for the Prompt Discovery of Compact Binary Mergers in Gravitational-wave Data

We describe a stream-based analysis pipeline to detect gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and neutron-star-black-hole binaries within ~ 1 minute of the arrival of the merger signal at Earth.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Cody Messick , Kent Blackburn , Patrick Brady , Patrick Brockill , Kipp Cannon , Romain Cariou , Sarah Caudill , Sydney J. Chamberlin , Jolien D. E. Creighton , Ryan Everett , Chad Hanna , Drew Keppel , Ryan N. Lang , Tjonnie G. F. Li , Duncan Meacher , Alex Nielsen , Chris Pankow , Stephen Privitera , Hong Qi , Surabhi Sachdev , Laleh Sadeghian , Leo Singer , E. Gareth Thomas , Leslie Wade , Madeline Wade , Alan Weinstein , Karsten Wiesner

The afterglow of GW170817 from every angle: Prospects for detecting the afterglows of binary neutron star mergers

To date GW170817, produced by a binary neutron star (BNS) merger, is the only gravitational wave event with an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart. It was associated with a prompt short gamma-ray burst (GRB), an optical kilonova, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-03 Brian James Morsony , Ryan De Los Santos , Rubin Hernandez , Joshua Bustamante , Brandon Yassuiae , German Astorga , Juan Parra , Jared C. Workman

Utility of galaxy catalogs for following up gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers with wide-field telescopes

The first detections of gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers with advanced LIGO and Virgo observatories are anticipated in the next five years. These detections could pave the way for multi-messenger gravitational-wave (GW)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-03-05 Chad Hanna , Ilya Mandel , Will Vousden

Capturing the electromagnetic counterparts of binary neutron star mergers through low latency gravitational wave triggers

We investigate the prospects for joint low-latency gravitational wave (GW) detection and prompt electromagnetic (EM) follow-up observations of coalescing binary neutron stars (BNSs). For BNS mergers associated with short duration gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Q. Chu , E. J. Howell , A. Rowlinson , H. Gao , B. Zhang , S. J. Tingay , M. Boer , L. Wen

Measuring the viewing angle of GW170817 with electromagnetic and gravitational waves

The joint detection of gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 ushered in a new era of multi-messenger astronomy. Joint GW-EM observations can be used to measure the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-13 Daniel Finstad , Soumi De , Duncan A. Brown , Edo Berger , Christopher M. Biwer

Gravitational-wave Merger Forecasting: Scenarios for the early detection and localization of compact-binary mergers with ground based observatories

We present the prospects for the early (pre-merger) detection and localization of compact-binary coalescences using gravitational waves over the next 10 years. Early warning can enable the direct observation of the prompt and early…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-20 Alexander H. Nitz , Marlin Schäfer , Tito Dal Canton