Rates of compact object coalescences

I Mandel, FS Broekgaarden - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2022 - Springer
Gravitational-wave detections are enabling measurements of the rate of coalescences of
binaries composed of two compact objects—neutron stars and/or black holes. The …

Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

MM Kasliwal, E Nakar, LP Singer, DL Kaplan, DO Cook… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Merging neutron stars offer an excellent laboratory for simultaneously studying strong-field
gravity and matter in extreme environments. We establish the physical association of an …

Short GRB host galaxies. I. Photometric and spectroscopic catalogs, host associations, and galactocentric offsets

W Fong, AE Nugent, Y Dong, E Berger… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive optical and near-infrared census of the fields of 90 short
gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) discovered in 2005–2021, constituting all short GRBs for which …

Perspectives for multimessenger astronomy with the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors and high-energy satellites

S Ronchini, M Branchesi, G Oganesyan… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
The Einstein Telescope (ET) is going to bring a revolution for the future of multimessenger
astrophysics. In order to detect the counterparts of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers at high …

Fast-transient searches in real time with ZTFReST: identification of three optically discovered gamma-ray burst afterglows and new constraints on the kilonova rate

I Andreoni, MW Coughlin, EC Kool… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The most common way to discover extragalactic fast transients, which fade within a few
nights in the optical, is via follow-up of gamma-ray burst and gravitational-wave triggers …

Short GRB 160821B: a reverse shock, a refreshed shock, and a well-sampled kilonova

GP Lamb, NR Tanvir, AJ Levan… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report our identification of the optical afterglow and host galaxy of the short-duration
gamma-ray burst sGRB 160821B. The spectroscopic redshift of the host is z= 0.162, making …

Eighteen Years of Kilonova Discoveries with Swift

E Troja - Universe, 2023 - mdpi.com
Swift has now completed 18 years of mission, during which it discovered thousands of
gamma-ray bursts as well as new classes of high-energy transient phenomena. Its first …

Late time afterglow observations reveal a collimated relativistic jet in the ejecta of the binary neutron star merger GW170817

D Lazzati, R Perna, BJ Morsony, D Lopez-Camara… - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
The binary neutron star (BNS) merger GW170817 was the first astrophysical source
detected in gravitational waves and multiwavelength electromagnetic radiation. The almost …

Searching for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave merger events with the prototype Gravitational-Wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO-4)

BP Gompertz, R Cutter, D Steeghs… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We report the results of optical follow-up observations of 29 gravitational-wave (GW) triggers
during the first half of the LIGO–Virgo Collaboration (LVC) O3 run with the Gravitational …

MAGIC observations of the nearby short gamma-ray burst GRB 160821B

VA Acciari, S Ansoldi, LA Antonelli… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The coincident detection of GW170817 in gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiation
spanning the radio to MeV gamma-ray bands provided the first direct evidence that short …