Short-duration gamma-ray bursts

E Berger - Annual review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) display a bimodal duration distribution with a separation between
the short-and long-duration bursts at about 2 s. The progenitors of long GRBs have been …

Physics, astrophysics and cosmology with gravitational waves

BS Sathyaprakash, BF Schutz - Living reviews in relativity, 2009 - Springer
Gravitational wave detectors are already operating at interesting sensitivity levels, and they
have an upgrade path that should result in secure detections by 2014. We review the …

LIGO: the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory

BP Abbott, R Abbott, R Adhikari, P Ajith… - Reports on Progress …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
The goal of the Laser Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is to detect and
study gravitational waves (GWs) of astrophysical origin. Direct detection of GWs holds the …

The LIGO open science center

M Vallisneri, J Kanner, R Williams… - Journal of Physics …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The LIGO Open Science Center (LOSC) fulfills LIGO's commitment to release,
archive, and serve LIGO data in a broadly accessible way to the scientific community and to …

Overview of KAGRA: KAGRA science

T Akutsu, M Ando, K Arai, Y Arai, S Araki… - … of Theoretical and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
KAGRA is a newly build gravitational wave observatory, a laser interferometer with 3 km arm
length, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. In this paper, one of a series of articles featuring …

FINDCHIRP: An algorithm for detection of gravitational waves<? format?> from inspiraling compact binaries

B Allen, WG Anderson, PR Brady, DA Brown… - Physical Review D …, 2012 - APS
Matched-filter searches for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binaries by the
LIGO Scientific Collaboration use the findchirp algorithm: an implementation of the optimal …

Multi-messenger astrophysics

P Mészáros, DB Fox, C Hanna, K Murase - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
Multi-messenger astrophysics, a long-anticipated extension to traditional multiwavelength
astronomy, has emerged over the past decade as a distinct discipline providing unique and …

Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era

N Gehrels, E Ramirez-Ruiz… - Annual Review of …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
With its rapid-response capability and multiwavelength complement of instruments, the Swift
satellite has transformed our physical understanding of γ-ray bursts (GRBs). Providing high …

Gravitational waves from neutron stars: a review

PD Lasky - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 2015 - cambridge.org
Neutron stars are excellent emitters of gravitational waves. Squeezing matter beyond
nuclear densities invites exotic physical processes, many of which violently transfer large …

Search for eccentric binary black hole mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their first and second observing runs

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
In their first two observing runs, the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors
discovered 10 binary black hole (BBH) mergers and a binary neutron star merger (Abbott et …