Multidisciplinary Science in the Multimessenger Era
Abstract
Astrophysical observations of the cosmos allow us to probe extreme physics and answer foundational questions on our universe. Modern astronomy is increasingly operating under a holistic approach, probing the same question with multiple diagnostics including how sources vary over time, how they appear across the electromagnetic spectrum, and through their other signatures, including gravitational waves, neutrinos, cosmic rays, and dust on Earth. Astrophysical observations are now reaching the point where approximate physics models are insufficient. Key sources of interest are explosive transients, whose understanding requires multidisciplinary studies at the intersection of astrophysics, gravity, nuclear science, plasma physics, fluid dynamics and turbulence, computation, particle physics, atomic, molecular, and optical science, condensed matter and materials science, radiation transport, and high energy density physics. This white paper provides an overview of the major scientific advances that lay at the intersection of physics and astronomy and are best probed through time-domain and multimessenger astrophysics, an exploration of how multidisciplinary science can be fostered, and introductory descriptions of the relevant scientific disciplines and key astrophysical sources of interest.
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@article{arxiv.2502.03577,
title = {Multidisciplinary Science in the Multimessenger Era},
author = {Eric Burns and Christopher L. Fryer and Ivan Agullo and Jennifer Andrews and Elias Aydi and Matthew G. Baring and Eddie Baron and Peter G. Boorman and Mohammad Ali Boroumand and Eric Borowski and Floor S. Broekgaarden and Poonam Chandra and Emmanouil Chatzopoulos and Hsin-Yu Chen and Kelly A. Chipps and Francesca Civano and Luca Comisso and Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño and Phong Dang and Catherine M. Deibel and Tarraneh Eftekhari and Courey Elliott and Ryan J. Foley and Christopher J. Fontes and Amy Gall and Gwendolyn R. Galleher and Gabriela Gonzalez and Fan Guo and Maria C. Babiuc Hamilton and J. Patrick Harding and Joseph Henning and Falk Herwig and William Raphael Hix and Anna Y. Q. Ho and Kelly Holley-Bockelmann and Rebekah Hounsell and C. Michelle Hui and Thomas Brian Humensky and Aimee Hungerford and Robert I. Hynes and Weidong Jin and Heather Johns and Maria Gatu Johnson and Jamie A. Kennea and Carolyn Kuranz and Gavin P. Lamb and Kristina D. Launey and Tiffany R. Lewis and Ioannis Liodakis and Daniel Livescu and Stuart Loch and Nicholas R. MacDonald and Thomas Maccarone and Lea Marcotulli and Athina Meli and Bronson Messer and M. Coleman Miller and Valarie Milton and Elias R. Most and Darin C. Mumma and Matthew R. Mumpower and Michela Negro and Eliza Neights and Peter Nugent and Dheeraj R Pasham and David Radice and Bindu Rani and Jocelyn S. Read and Rene Reifarth and Emily Reily and Lauren Rhodes and Andrea Richard and Paul M. Ricker and Christopher J. Roberts and Hendrik Schatz and Peter Shawhan and Endre Takacs and John A. Tomsick and Aaron C. Trigg and Todd Urbatsch and Nicole Vassh and V. Ashley Villar and Zorawar Wadiasingh and Gaurav Waratkar and Michael Zingale},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.03577},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
This white paper is the product of the Third Time-Domain And Multimessenger Astrophysics workshop: Multidisciplinary Science in the Multimessenger Era, hosted by Louisiana State University with additional support from DOE, NSF, and NASA. Updated arXiv versions fix minor issues (authors, incorrect images)