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 …

GW190425: Observation of a compact binary coalescence with total mass∼ 3.4 M⊙

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The first observation of gravitational waves from the inspiral of a binary neutron star (BNS)
200 system on 2017 August 17 (Abbott et al. 2017b) was a major landmark in multi …

Multi-messenger observations of binary neutron star mergers in the O4 run

A Colombo, OS Salafia, F Gabrielli… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We present realistic expectations for the number and properties of neutron star binary
mergers to be detected as multi-messenger sources during the upcoming fourth observing …

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 …

Tight multimessenger constraints on the neutron star equation of state from GW170817 and a forward model for kilonova light-curve synthesis

M Nicholl, B Margalit, P Schmidt… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a rapid analytic framework for predicting kilonova light curves following neutron
star (NS) mergers, where the main input parameters are binary-based properties …

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 …

GLADE+: an extended galaxy catalogue for multimessenger searches with advanced gravitational-wave detectors

G Dálya, R Díaz, FR Bouchet, Z Frei… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present GLADE+, an extended version of the GLADE galaxy catalogue introduced in our
previous paper for multimessenger searches with advanced gravitational-wave detectors …

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 …