Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Living reviews in …, 2020 - Springer
We present our current best estimate of the plausible observing scenarios for the Advanced
LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors over the next several years …

First multimessenger observations of a neutron star merger

R Margutti, R Chornock - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We describe the first observations of the same celestial object with gravitational waves and
light.▪ GW170817 was the first detection of a neutron star merger with gravitational waves.▪ …

Science case for the Einstein telescope

M Maggiore, C Van Den Broeck… - … of Cosmology and …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Einstein Telescope (ET), a proposed European ground-based gravitational-
wave detector of third-generation, is an evolution of second-generation detectors such as …

Binary neutron star mergers: mass ejection, electromagnetic counterparts, and nucleosynthesis

D Radice, A Perego, K Hotokezaka… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic numerical relativity study of the mass ejection and the associated
electromagnetic transients and nucleosynthesis from binary neutron star (NS) mergers. We …

The zwicky transient facility: science objectives

MJ Graham, SR Kulkarni, EC Bellm… - Publications of the …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), a public–private enterprise, is a new time-
domain survey employing a dedicated camera on the Palomar 48-inch Schmidt telescope …

Compact radio emission indicates a structured jet was produced by a binary neutron star merger

G Ghirlanda, OS Salafia, Z Paragi, M Giroletti, J Yang… - Science, 2019 - science.org
The binary neutron star merger event GW170817 was detected through both
electromagnetic radiation and gravitational waves. Its afterglow emission may have been …

Superluminal motion of a relativistic jet in the neutron-star merger GW170817

KP Mooley, AT Deller, O Gottlieb, E Nakar, G Hallinan… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
The binary neutron-star merger GW170817 was accompanied by radiation across the
electromagnetic spectrum and localized to the galaxy NGC 4993 at a distance of about 41 …

Optical superluminal motion measurement in the neutron-star merger GW170817

KP Mooley, J Anderson, W Lu - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The afterglow of the binary neutron-star merger GW170817 gave evidence for a structured
relativistic jet,,,–and a link,, between such mergers and short gamma-ray bursts …

A Hubble constant measurement from superluminal motion of the jet in GW170817

K Hotokezaka, E Nakar, O Gottlieb, S Nissanke… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The Hubble constant (H 0) measures the current expansion rate of the Universe, and plays a
fundamental role in cosmology. Tremendous effort has been dedicated over the past …

Radio properties of tidal disruption events

KD Alexander, S van Velzen, A Horesh… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Radio observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) probe material ejected by the disruption
of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), uniquely tracing the formation and evolution …