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The joint detection of GW170817 and GRB 170817A opened the era of multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves (GWs) and provided the first direct probe that at least some binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of short…

The various materials of test masses, and the difference of arm lengths of global ground-based gravitational-wave interferometer detectors offer a unique approach to test Newton's second law, weak equivalence principle, and Einstein…

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The recent direct observation of gravitational wave event $GW170817$ and its $GRB170817A$ signal has opened up a new window to study neutron stars and heralds a new era of Astronomy referred to as the Multimessenger Astronomy. Both…

The past four years have seen a scientific revolution through the birth of a new field: gravitational-wave astronomy. The first detection of gravitational waves---recognised by the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physics---provided unprecedented tests…

Neutron stars (NSs) are extraordinary not only because they are the densest form of matter in the visible Universe but also because they can generate B-fields ten orders of magnitude larger than those currently constructed on Earth. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-09 Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro , Antonios Tsokaros

In this Letter we constrain for the first time both cosmology and modified gravity theories conjointly, by combining the GW and electromagnetic observations of GW170817. We provide joint posterior distributions for the Hubble constant…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-14 S. Mastrogiovanni , D. A. Steer , M. Barsuglia

The tidal measurement of gravitational waves from the binary neutron star merger event GW170817 allows us to probe nuclear physics that suffers less from astrophysical systematics compared to neutron star radius measurements with…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-01-19 Zack Carson , Andrew W. Steiner , Kent Yagi

Linking the previous research that occurred over the last decades, I will try to provide some objective elements to evaluate the innovation of the joint observation of GW170817 and GRB 170817A and their occurrence detection, in light of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-04 Giuseppina Modestino

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) has provided a new tool to study the Universe, with the scientific return enriched when combined with established probes: electromagnetic (EM) radiation and energetic particles. Since the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-25 Matt Nicholl , Igor Andreoni

The recent breakthroughs regarding the detection of compact binary mergers via gravitational waves opened up a new window to the Universe. Gravitational-wave models have been essential to this success since they are necessary to infer the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Adrian Abac , Anna Puecher , Jonathan Gair , Tim Dietrich

The oscillation modes of neutron star (NS) merger remnants, as encoded by the kHz postmerger gravitational wave (GW) signal, hold great potential for constraining the as-yet undetermined equation of state (EOS) of dense nuclear matter.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-02-28 Jamie Bamber , Antonios Tsokaros , Milton Ruiz , Stuart L. Shapiro

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

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

Gravitational wave observations of compact binary mergers are already providing stringent tests of general relativity and constraints on modified gravity. Ground-based interferometric detectors will soon reach design sensitivity and they…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-09-07 Scott E. Perkins , Nicolás Yunes , Emanuele Berti

We present the results of two searches for gravitational waves from the post-merger remnants of the binary neutron star coalescence events GW170817 and GW190425. The searches are fully coherent over 1800~s of data from the 2nd (for…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-10-25 Benjamin Grace , Karl Wette , Susan Scott

The LIGO/VIRGO collaboration has recently announced the detection of gravitational waves from a neutron star-neutron star merger (GW170817) and the simultaneous measurement of an optical counterpart (the gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A). The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-27 Jeremy Sakstein , Bhuvnesh Jain

The Strong Equivalence Principle (SEP) holds the full essence and meaning of the General Theory of Relativity as the nonlinear relativistic theory of gravitation. It asserts the universal coupling of gravity to all matter and its…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-06 C. S. Unnikrishnan , George T. Gillies

As of today, we have directly detected exactly one source in both gravitational waves (GWs) and electromagnetic (EM) radiation, the binary neutron star merger GW170817, its associated gamma-ray burst GRB170817A, and the subsequent kilonova…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 R. J. Foley , K. D. Alexander , I. Andreoni , I. Arcavi , K. Auchettl , J. Barnes , G. Baym , E. C. Bellm , A. M. Beloborodov , N. Blagorodnova , J. P. Blakeslee , P. R. Brady , M. Branchesi , J. S. Brown , N. Butler , M. Cantiello , R. Chornock , D. O. Cook , J. Cooke , D. L. Coppejans , A. Corsi , S. M. Couch , M. W. Coughlin , D. A. Coulter , P. S. Cowperthwaite , T. Dietrich , G. Dimitriadis , M. R. Drout , J. H. Elias , B. Farr , R. Fernandez , A. V. Filippenko , W. Fong , T. Fragos , D. A. Frail , W. L. Freedman , C. L. Fryer , V. Z. Golkhou , D. Hiramatsu , J. Hjorth , A. Horesh , G. Hosseinzadeh , K. Hotokezaka , D. A. Howell , T. Hung , D. O. Jones , V. Kalogera , D. Kasen , W. E. Kerzendorf , C. D. Kilpatrick , R. P. Kirshner , K. Krisciunas , J. M. Lattimer , D. Lazzati , A. J. Levan , A. I. MacFadyen , K. Maeda , I. Mandel , K. S. Mandel , B. Margalit , R. Margutti , J. McIver , B. D. Metzger , K. Mooley , T. Moriya , A. Murguia-Berthier , G. Narayan , M. Nicholl , S. Nissanke , K. Nomoto , J. M. O'Meara , R. O'Shaughnessy , E. O'Connor , A. Palmese , Y. -C. Pan , C. Pankow , K. Paterson , D. A. Perley , R. Perna , A. L. Piro , T. A. Pritchard , E. Quataert , D. Radice , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , S. Reddy , A. Rest , A. G. Riess , C. L. Rodriguez , C. Rojas-Bravo , E. M. Rossi , S. Rosswog , M. Ruiz , S. L. Shapiro , D. H. Shoemaker , M. R. Siebert , D. M. Siegel , K. Siellez , N. Smith , M. Soares-Santos , N. B. Suntzeff , R. Surman , M. Tanaka , N. R. Tanvir , G. Terreran , S. Valenti , V. A. Villar , L. Wang , S. A. Webb , J. C. Wheeler , P. K. G. Williams , S. Woosley , M. Zaldarriaga , M. Zevin

Neutron star mergers have recently become a tool to study extreme gravity, nucleosynthesis, and the chemical composition of the Universe. To date, there has been one joint gravitational and electromagnetic observation of a binary neutron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Amelia Henkel , Francois Foucart , Geert Raaijmakers , Samaya Nissanke
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