Kilonovae

BD Metzger - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2020 - Springer
The coalescence of double neutron star (NS–NS) and black hole (BH)–NS binaries are
prime sources of gravitational waves (GW) for Advanced LIGO/Virgo and future ground …

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 …

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 …

GW170817: joint constraint on the neutron star equation of state from multimessenger observations

D Radice, A Perego, F Zappa… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Gravitational waves detected from the binary neutron star (NS) merger GW170817
constrained the NS equation of state by placing an upper bound on certain parameters …

Optical emission from a kilonova following a gravitational-wave-detected neutron-star merger

I Arcavi, G Hosseinzadeh, DA Howell, C McCully… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
The merger of two neutron stars has been predicted to produce an optical–infrared transient
(lasting a few days) known as a 'kilonova', powered by the radioactive decay of neutron-rich …

Gravitational waves from neutron star mergers and their relation to the nuclear equation of state

L Baiotti - Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics, 2019 - Elsevier
In this article, I introduce ideas and techniques to extract information about the equation of
state of matter at very high densities from gravitational waves emitted before, during and …

Cosmology with LIGO/Virgo dark sirens: Hubble parameter and modified gravitational wave propagation

A Finke, S Foffa, F Iacovelli, M Maggiore… - … of Cosmology and …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a detailed study of the methodology for correlatingdark sirens'(compact binaries
coalescences without electromagnetic counterpart) with galaxy catalogs. We propose …

A standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant from GW170817 without the electromagnetic counterpart

M Fishbach, R Gray, IM Hernandez, H Qi… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The first multimessenger detection of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger, GW170817, by
LIGO(Aasi et al. 2015) and Virgo(Acernese et al. 2015) enabled the first standard siren …

The electromagnetic counterparts of compact binary mergers

E Nakar - Physics Reports, 2020 - Elsevier
Mergers of binaries consisting of two neutron stars, or a black hole and a neutron star, offer a
unique opportunity to study a range of physical and astrophysical processes using two …

Global simulations of strongly magnetized remnant massive neutron stars formed in binary neutron star mergers

K Kiuchi, K Kyutoku, Y Sekiguchi, M Shibata - Physical Review D, 2018 - APS
We perform a general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulation for≈ 30 ms from the
merger of a binary neutron star throughout the formation of a remnant massive neutron star …