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Next-generation gravitational-wave detectors like the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, currently in their preparatory phase, have the potential to significantly improve our understanding of astrophysics, cosmology and fundamental…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-23 Michael Ebersold , Tania Regimbau , Nelson Christensen

How many gravitational-wave observations from double compact object mergers have we seen to date? This seemingly simple question surprisingly yields a somewhat ambiguous answer that depends on the chosen data-analysis pipeline, detection…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-25 Floor S. Broekgaarden , Sharan Banagiri , Ethan Payne

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is going to bring a revolution for the future of multi-messenger astrophysics. In order to detect the counterparts of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers at high redshift, the high-energy observations will play a…

Einstein Telescope (ET) is a 3rd generation gravitational-wave (GW) detector that is currently undergoing a design study. ET can detect millions of compact binary mergers up to redshifts 2-8. A small fraction of mergers might be observed in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-09 B. S. Sathyaprakash , Bernard Schutz , Chris Van Den Broeck

We explore the prospects for constraining cosmology using gravitational-wave (GW) observations of neutron-star binaries by the proposed Einstein Telescope (ET), exploiting the narrowness of the neutron-star mass function. Double…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-06 Stephen R. Taylor , Jonathan R. Gair

A gravitational-wave (GW) early-warning of a compact-binary coalescence event, with a sufficiently tight localisation skymap, would allow telescopes to point in the direction of the potential electromagnetic counterpart before its onset.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-25 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Md Arif Shaikh , Deep Chatterjee , Parameswaran Ajith

Joint observations of gravitational waves and electromagnetic counterparts will answer questions about cosmology, gamma-ray bursts, and the behaviour of matter at supranuclear densities. The addition of a Southern-Hemisphere…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-01-12 James W. Gardner , Ling Sun , Ssohrab Borhanian , Paul D. Lasky , Eric Thrane , David E. McClelland , Bram J. J. Slagmolen

The Einstein Telescope (ET), a future third-generation gravitational wave detector will have detection sensitivity for gravitational wave signals down to 1 Hz. This improved low-frequency sensitivity of the ET will allow the observation of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-19 Neha Singh , Tomasz Bulik

Because of the electromagnetic radiation produced during the merger, compact binary coalescences with neutron stars may result in multi-messenger observations. In order to follow up on the gravitational-wave signal with electromagnetic…

We discuss the potential of detecting thermal neutrinos from matter-rich binary mergers, via a decades-long multi-messenger campaign involving a Mt-scale water Cherenkov neutrino detector and one or more next generation gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-05 Zidu Lin , Cecilia Lunardini

The pre-merger (early-warning) gravitational-wave (GW) detection and localization of a compact binary merger would enable astronomers to capture potential electromagnetic (EM) emissions around the time of the merger, thus shedding light on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Mukesh Kumar Singh , Divyajyoti , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Md Arif Shaikh , Parameswaran Ajith

We present a search for gravitational waves from merging binary neutron stars which have non-negligible eccentricity as they enter the LIGO observing band. We use the public Advanced LIGO data which covers the period from 2015 through 2017…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-24 Alexander H. Nitz , Amber Lenon , Duncan A. Brown

In the past few years, the detection of gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences with the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors has become routine. Future observatories will detect even larger numbers of gravitational-wave…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-08-11 Anuradha Samajdar , Justin Janquart , Chris Van Den Broeck , Tim Dietrich

The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration has detected over one hundred compact binary mergers in gravitational waves, but the formation history of these binaries remains an open question. Finding the host galaxies of these mergers will provide…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-16 Geoffrey Mo , Hsin-Yu Chen

The discovery of gravitational waves from merging compact objects has opened up a new window to the Universe. Planned third-generation gravitational-wave detectors such as Einstein Telescope will potentially deliver hundreds of such events…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 Sarp Akcay , Morgan Fraser , Antonio Martin-Carrillo

We constrain the uncertainty in waiting times for detecting the first double-neutron-star (DNS) mergers by gravitational wave observatories. By accounting for the Poisson fluctuations in the rate density of DNS mergers and galaxy space…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-05-09 D. M. Coward

In this study, we use simple performance metrics to assess the science capabilities of future ground-based gravitational-wave detector networks -- composed of A+ or Voyager upgrades to the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA observatories and proposed…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-11-13 Ssohrab Borhanian , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The Einstein Telescope is a conceived third generation gravitational-wave detector that is envisioned to be an order of magnitude more sensitive than advanced LIGO, Virgo and Kagra, which would be able to detect gravitational-wave signals…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-01-20 Duncan Meacher , Kipp Cannon , Chad Hanna , Tania Regimbau , B. S. Sathyaprakash

The early and precise localization of gravitational waves (GWs) is pivotal in detecting their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, especially for binary neutron stars (BNS) and neutron star-black hole binaries (NSBH). In this letter, we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-05-15 Tao Yang , Rong-Gen Cai , Zhoujian Cao , Hyung Mok Lee

As the sensitivity of the international gravitational wave detector network increases, observing binary neutron star signals will become more common. Moreover, since these signals will be louder, the chances of detecting them before their…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-07-16 Wouter van Straalen , Alex Kolmus , Justin Janquart , Chris Van Den Broeck