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The detection of the binary neutron star (BNS) merger, GW170817, was the first success story of multi-messenger observations of compact binary mergers. The inferred merger rate along with the increased sensitivity of the ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-24 Deep Chatterjee , Shaon Ghosh , Patrick R. Brady , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Andrew L. Miller , Samaya Nissanke , Francesco Pannarale

The discovery of the compact binary coalescence in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation marks a breakthrough in the field of multi-messenger astronomy and has improved our knowledge in a number of research areas. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-15 Michael W. Coughlin , Tim Dietrich

The mergers of binaries containing neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes are the most promising sources for direct detection in gravitational waves by the interferometers Advanced LIGO and Virgo over the next few years. The concurrent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-29 Rodrigo Fernández , Brian D. Metzger

The historical detection of gravitational waves emitted from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the new era of multi-messenger astronomy. Since then, many other significant discoveries -- both on heaven and earth -- are…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2022-10-19 J. Piekarewicz

The first detection of gravitational waves from a binary neutron star merger (GW170817) and the accompanying electromagnetic emission has impressively advanced our understanding of the merger process and has set some first constraints on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-02-05 Andreas Bauswein , Nikolaos Stergioulas

The Einstein Telescope (ET), a proposed next-generation gravitational wave (GW) observatory, will expand the reach of GW astronomy of stellar-mass compact object binaries to unprecedented distances, enhancing opportunities for…

Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers can result in the formation of long-lived magnetar remnants which can enhance neutrino and electromagnetic (EM) emissions. In this work, we study the resulting multi-wavelength EM emissions and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-22 Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Shigeo S. Kimura

On 2017 August 17 a binary neutron star coalescence candidate (later designated GW170817) with merger time 12:41:04 UTC was observed through gravitational waves by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , Virgo Collaboration , Fermi GBM , INTEGRAL , IceCube Collaboration , AstroSat Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager Team , IPN Collaboration , The Insight-Hxmt Collaboration , ANTARES Collaboration , The Swift Collaboration , AGILE Team , The 1M2H Team , The Dark Energy Camera GW-EM Collaboration , the DES Collaboration , The DLT40 Collaboration , GRAWITA , : , GRAvitational Wave Inaf TeAm , The Fermi Large Area Telescope Collaboration , ATCA , : , Australia Telescope Compact Array , ASKAP , : , Australian SKA Pathfinder , Las Cumbres Observatory Group , OzGrav , DWF , AST3 , CAASTRO Collaborations , The VINROUGE Collaboration , MASTER Collaboration , J-GEM , GROWTH , JAGWAR , Caltech- NRAO , TTU-NRAO , NuSTAR Collaborations , Pan-STARRS , The MAXI Team , TZAC Consortium , KU Collaboration , Nordic Optical Telescope , ePESSTO , GROND , Texas Tech University , SALT Group , TOROS , : , Transient Robotic Observatory of the South Collaboration , The BOOTES Collaboration , MWA , : , Murchison Widefield Array , The CALET Collaboration , IKI-GW Follow-up Collaboration , H. E. S. S. Collaboration , LOFAR Collaboration , LWA , : , Long Wavelength Array , HAWC Collaboration , The Pierre Auger Collaboration , ALMA Collaboration , Euro VLBI Team , Pi of the Sky Collaboration , The Chandra Team at McGill University , DFN , : , Desert Fireball Network , ATLAS , High Time Resolution Universe Survey , RIMAS , RATIR , SKA South Africa/MeerKAT

We present a study aimed at quantifying the detectability of radio counterparts of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers with total masses $\lesssim 3$\,M$_{\odot}$, which may form neutron star (NS) remnants. We focus on mergers localized by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-01 Kara Merfeld , Alessandra Corsi

Binary neutron star mergers are unique probes of matter at extreme density and standard candles of cosmic expansion. The only such event observed in both gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation, GW170817, revealed the origin of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-05-14 Anjali B. Yelikar , Karan Jani

On August 17, 2017 the LIGO-Virgo collaboration detected for the first time gravitational waves from the binary merger of two neutron stars (GW170817). Unlike the merger of two black holes, the associated electromagnetic radiation was also…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2019-05-01 J. Piekarewicz

Merging neutron star (NS) binaries may be detected by ground-based gravitational wave (GW) interferometers (e.g. LIGO/VIRGO) within this decade and may also generate electromagnetic radiation detectable by wide-field, fast imaging…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Dong Lai

The discovery by Advanced LIGO/Virgo of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817, and subsequently by astronomers of transient counterparts across the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum, has initiated the era of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-18 Brian D. Metzger

The combined detection of a binary neutron-star merger in both gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation spanning the entire spectrum -- GW170817 / AT2017gfo / GRB170817A -- marks a breakthrough in the field of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-05 Michael W. Coughlin , Tim Dietrich , Ben Margalit , Brian D. Metzger

Mergers of binary neutron stars (BNSs) emit signals in both the gravitational-wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) spectra. Famously, the 2017 multi-messenger observation of GW170817 led to scientific discoveries across cosmology, nuclear…

The detection of gravitational waves from neutron star merger events has opened up a new field of multi-messenger astronomy linking gravitational waves events to short-gamma ray bursts and kilonova afterglows. A further - yet to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-15 Elias R. Most , Alexander A. Philippov

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

Two neutron stars merge somewhere in the Universe approximately every 10 seconds, creating violent explosions observable in gravitational waves and across the electromagnetic spectrum. The transformative coincident gravitational-wave and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-21 Nikhil Sarin , Paul D. Lasky

Mergers of binaries consisting of two neutron stars, or a black hole and a neutron star, offer a unique opportunity to study a range of physical and astrophysical processes using two different and almost orthogonal probes - gravitational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-02 Ehud Nakar

Observations of the high-frequency gravitational waves (GWs) emitted by the hot and massive remnant of a binary neutron star merger will provide new probes of the dense-matter equation of state (EoS). We show that current uncertainties in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-02 Carolyn A. Raithel , Vasileios Paschalidis