引力与光:2020 年代引力波与电磁观测的联合
高能天体物理现象
2019-03-13 v1 宇宙学与河外天体物理
太阳与恒星天体物理
摘要
截至今日,我们仅直接探测到一处同时发出引力波(GWs)与电磁(EM)辐射的源,即双中子星并合 GW170817、其关联的伽马射线暴 GRB170817A,以及随后的千新星 SSS17a/AT 2017gfo。十年之内,我们将探测到数百个事件,包括中子星-黑洞并合、核塌缩超新星等新型事件,且几乎必然有完全出乎意料之物。在构建此样本的过程中,我们将探索从核合成、恒星演化、广义相对论、高能天体物理、核物质到宇宙学的奇异天体物理课题。发现潜力非凡,该领域的投入将带来重大科学突破。在此我们概述一些可通过联合 GW 与 EM 观测得以解答的最令人振奋的科学问题。
引用
@article{arxiv.1903.04553,
title = {Gravity and Light: Combining Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Observations in the 2020s},
author = {R. J. Foley and K. D. Alexander and I. Andreoni and I. Arcavi and K. Auchettl and J. Barnes and G. Baym and E. C. Bellm and A. M. Beloborodov and N. Blagorodnova and J. P. Blakeslee and P. R. Brady and M. Branchesi and J. S. Brown and N. Butler and M. Cantiello and R. Chornock and D. O. Cook and J. Cooke and D. L. Coppejans and A. Corsi and S. M. Couch and M. W. Coughlin and D. A. Coulter and P. S. Cowperthwaite and T. Dietrich and G. Dimitriadis and M. R. Drout and J. H. Elias and B. Farr and R. Fernandez and A. V. Filippenko and W. Fong and T. Fragos and D. A. Frail and W. L. Freedman and C. L. Fryer and V. Z. Golkhou and D. Hiramatsu and J. Hjorth and A. Horesh and G. Hosseinzadeh and K. Hotokezaka and D. A. Howell and T. Hung and D. O. Jones and V. Kalogera and D. Kasen and W. E. Kerzendorf and C. D. Kilpatrick and R. P. Kirshner and K. Krisciunas and J. M. Lattimer and D. Lazzati and A. J. Levan and A. I. MacFadyen and K. Maeda and I. Mandel and K. S. Mandel and B. Margalit and R. Margutti and J. McIver and B. D. Metzger and K. Mooley and T. Moriya and A. Murguia-Berthier and G. Narayan and M. Nicholl and S. Nissanke and K. Nomoto and J. M. O'Meara and R. O'Shaughnessy and E. O'Connor and A. Palmese and Y. -C. Pan and C. Pankow and K. Paterson and D. A. Perley and R. Perna and A. L. Piro and T. A. Pritchard and E. Quataert and D. Radice and E. Ramirez-Ruiz and S. Reddy and A. Rest and A. G. Riess and C. L. Rodriguez and C. Rojas-Bravo and E. M. Rossi and S. Rosswog and M. Ruiz and S. L. Shapiro and D. H. Shoemaker and M. R. Siebert and D. M. Siegel and K. Siellez and N. Smith and M. Soares-Santos and N. B. Suntzeff and R. Surman and M. Tanaka and N. R. Tanvir and G. Terreran and S. Valenti and V. A. Villar and L. Wang and S. A. Webb and J. C. Wheeler and P. K. G. Williams and S. Woosley and M. Zaldarriaga and M. Zevin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04553},
year = {2019}
}
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