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Coalescing compact binaries of neutron stars and/or black holes are considered as one of the most promising sources for Earth based gravitational wave detectors. The LIGO-Virgo joint collaboration's Compact Binary Coalescence (CBC) group is…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-13 Anand S. Sengupta

As the ground-based gravitational-wave telescopes LIGO, Virgo, and GEO 600 approach the era of first detections, we review the current knowledge of the coalescence rates and the mass and spin distributions of merging neutron-star and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-13 Ilya Mandel , Richard O'Shaughnessy

The focus of this Chapter is on describing the prospective sources of the gravitational wave universe accessible to present and future observations, from kHz, to mHz down to nano-Hz frequencies. The multi-frequency gravitational wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-26 Monica Colpi , Alberto Sesana

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are probably powered by high-angular momentum black hole-torus systems in suspended accretion. The torus will radiate gravitational waves as non-axisymmetric instabilities develop. The luminosity in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Binary Systems are the most studied sources of gravitational waves. The mechanisms of emission and the behavior of the orbital parameters are well known and can be written in analytic form in several cases. Besides, the strongest indication…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-04-24 E. F. D. Evangelista , J. C. N. de Araujo

Gamma-ray bursts, which are among the most violent events in the universe, are one of the few viable candidates to produce ultrahigh energy cosmic rays. Recently, observations have revealed that GRBs generally originate from metal-poor…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Hasan Yuksel , Matthew D. Kistler

We present the summary of the recent investigations of double black hole binaries in context of their formation and merger rates. In particular we discuss the spectrum of black hole masses, the formation scenarios in the local Universe and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-03 Krzysztof Belczynski , Tomasz Bulik , Michal Dominik , Andrea Prestwich

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most luminous electromagnetic explosions in the Universe, which emit up to $8.8\times10^{54}$ erg isotropic equivalent energy in the hard X-ray band. The high luminosity makes them detectable out to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , E. W. Liang

Merging compact binaries are the most viable and best studied candidates for gravitational wave (GW) detection by the fully operational network of ground-based observatories. In anticipation of the first detections, the expected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Luke Zoltan Kelley , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Marcel Zemp , Jürg Diemand , Ilya Mandel

Gravitational wave detectors in space, particularly the LISA project, can study a rich variety of astronomical systems whose gravitational radiation is not detectable from the ground, because it is emitted in the low-frequency gravitational…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 B. F. Schutz

We explore the intriguing possibility of employing future ground-based gravitational-wave interferometers to detect the inspiral of binary neutron stars sufficiently early to alert electromagnetic observatories so that a gamma-ray burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-18 Sarp Akcay

Cosmological gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are probably powered by systems harboring a rotating black hole. These may result from hypernovae or black hole-neutron star coalescence. We identify short/long bursts with hyper- and suspended-accretion…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

Coalescing binary systems (eg pulsars, neutron stars and black holes) are the most likely sources of gravitational radiation, yet to be detected on or near Earth, where the local gravitational field is negligible and the Poincar\'e symmetry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2011-01-25 M. D. Maia

Neutron star binary mergers are often associated with short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), but the recent detection of kilonovae coincident with long GRBs suggest that some mergers may produce long GRBs. Motivated by these developments, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 Mallika R. Sinha , Teagan A. Clarke , Qifang Zhang , Nikhil Sarin , Eric Thrane , Paul D. Lasky

The era of gravitational wave astronomy began in 2015 with the observation of the signal from the merger of two black holes by the LIGO detectors; by 2021, almost 100 more such transient signals from coalescences of compact binaries of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-09-04 K. Chatziioannou , T. Dent , M. Fishbach , F. Ohme , M. Pürrer , V. Raymond , J. Veitch

Short Gamma Ray Bursts (SGRB) are believed to originate from the merger of two compact objects. If this scenario is correct, SGRB will be accompanied by the emission of strong gravitational waves, detectable by current or planned GW…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-03 Alexander Dietz

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is one of a new generation of detectors of gravitational radiation. The existence of gravitational radiation was first predicted by Einstein in 1916, however gravitational waves…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Duncan A. Brown

Compact binary coalescences, such as binary neutron stars or black holes, are among the most promising candidate sources for the current and future terrestrial gravitational-wave detectors. While such sources are best searched using matched…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-03-06 Chengjian Wu , Vuk Mandic , Tania Regimbau

On 11 February 2016, the LIGO and Virgo scientific collaborations announced the first direct detection of gravitational waves, a signal caught by the LIGO interferometers on 14 September 2015, and produced by the coalescence of two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-01 Mario Spera , Alessandro Alberto Trani , Mattia Mencagli