Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s

M Bailes, BK Berger, PR Brady, M Branchesi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The 100 years since the publication of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity saw
significant development of the understanding of the theory, the identification of potential …

Black holes, gravitational waves and fundamental physics: a roadmap

L Barack, V Cardoso, S Nissanke… - … and quantum gravity, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
70 AIM, UMR 7158, CEA/DRF, CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Irfu/Service d'Astrophysique,
Centre de Saclay, FR-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, France

Binary black hole population properties inferred from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The second LIGO/Virgo observing run (O2) spanned 9 months between 2016 November
and 2017 August, building on the first, 4-month run (O1) in 2015. The LIGO/Virgo …

CMB-S4 science case, reference design, and project plan

K Abazajian, G Addison, P Adshead, Z Ahmed… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2019 - arxiv.org
CMB-S4 Science Case, Reference Design, and Project Plan Page 1 CMB-S4 Science Case,
Reference Design, and Project Plan CMB-S4 Collaboration July 9, 2019 arXiv:1907.04473v1 …

Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron-star merger

E Pian, P D'Avanzo, S Benetti, M Branchesi, E Brocato… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The merger of two neutron stars is predicted to give rise to three major detectable
phenomena: a short burst of γ-rays, a gravitational-wave signal, and a transient optical–near …

Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova

PA Evans, SB Cenko, JA Kennea, SWK Emery… - Science, 2017 - science.org
With the first direct detection of merging black holes in 2015, the era of gravitational wave
(GW) astrophysics began. A complete picture of compact object mergers, however, requires …

Modeling GW170817 based on numerical relativity and its implications

M Shibata, S Fujibayashi, K Hotokezaka, K Kiuchi… - Physical Review D, 2017 - APS
Gravitational-wave observation together with a large number of electromagnetic
observations shows that the source of the latest gravitational-wave event, GW170817 …

The progenitors of compact-object binaries: impact of metallicity, common envelope and natal kicks

N Giacobbo, M Mapelli - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Six gravitational wave events have been reported by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration (LVC),
five of them associated with black hole binary (BHB) mergers and one with a double neutron …

Merging black holes in young star clusters

UN Di Carlo, N Giacobbo, M Mapelli… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Searching for distinctive signatures, which characterize different formation channels of
binary black holes (BBHs), is a crucial step towards the interpretation of current and future …

The binary neutron star event LIGO/Virgo GW170817 160 days after merger: synchrotron emission across the electromagnetic spectrum

R Margutti, KD Alexander, X Xie, L Sironi… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We report deep Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), Hubble Space Telescope (HST), and
Karl J. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) observations of the binary neutron star event …