GWTC-3: Compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the second part of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) describes signals detected with
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo up to the end of their third observing run. Updating the …

possis: predicting spectra, light curves, and polarization for multidimensional models of supernovae and kilonovae

M Bulla - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present possis, a time-dependent three-dimensional Monte Carlo code for modelling
radiation transport in supernovae and kilonovae. The code incorporates wavelength-and …

A data science platform to enable time-domain astronomy

MW Coughlin, JS Bloom, G Nir, S Antier… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
SkyPortal is an open-source software package designed to discover interesting transients
efficiently, manage follow-up, perform characterization, and visualize the results. By …

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 …

Black-hole–Neutron-star Mergers Are Unlikely Multimessenger Sources

G Fragione - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The promise by the LIGO/Virgo/Kagra (LVK) collaboration to detect black-hole–neutron-star
(BH–NS) mergers via gravitational wave (GW) emission has recently been fulfilled with the …

Kilonova luminosity function constraints based on Zwicky transient facility searches for 13 neutron star merger triggers during O3

MM Kasliwal, S Anand, T Ahumada… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a systematic search for optical counterparts to 13 gravitational wave (GW)
triggers involving at least one neutron star during LIGO/Virgo's third observing run (O3). We …

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 …

GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star–Black Hole Merger

I Andreoni, DA Goldstein, MM Kasliwal… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract On 2019 August 14, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo interferometers detected the
high-significance gravitational wave (GW) signal S190814bv. The GW data indicated that …

Updated observing scenarios and multimessenger implications for the international gravitational-wave networks O4 and O5

RW Kiendrebeogo, AM Farah, EM Foley… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
An advanced LIGO and Virgo's third observing run brought another binary neutron star
merger (BNS) and the first neutron-star black hole mergers. While no confirmed kilonovae …

Implications of the search for optical counterparts during the first six months of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run: possible limits on the …

MW Coughlin, T Dietrich, S Antier… - Monthly Notices of …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT GW170817 showed that neutron star mergers not only emit gravitational waves
but also can release electromagnetic signatures in multiple wavelengths. Within the first half …