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 …

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 …

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 …

Optical superluminal motion measurement in the neutron-star merger GW170817

KP Mooley, J Anderson, W Lu - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The afterglow of the binary neutron-star merger GW170817 gave evidence for a structured
relativistic jet,,,–and a link,, between such mergers and short gamma-ray bursts …

The dynamics of binary neutron star mergers and GW170817

D Radice, S Bernuzzi, A Perego - Annual Review of Nuclear …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
With the first observation of a binary neutron star merger through gravitational waves and
light, GW170817, compact binary mergers have now taken the center stage in nuclear …

First multimessenger observations of a neutron star merger

R Margutti, R Chornock - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
We describe the first observations of the same celestial object with gravitational waves and
light.▪ GW170817 was the first detection of a neutron star merger with gravitational waves.▪ …

Gamma-ray burst afterglows in the multimessenger era: numerical models and closure relations

G Ryan, H Van Eerten, L Piro… - The Astrophysical Journal, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) associated with gravitational wave events are, and will likely
continue to be, viewed at a larger inclination than GRBs without gravitational wave …

Radio properties of tidal disruption events

KD Alexander, S van Velzen, A Horesh… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Radio observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) probe material ejected by the disruption
of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs), uniquely tracing the formation and evolution …

Self-consistent picture of the mass ejection from a one second long binary neutron star merger leaving a short-lived remnant in a general-relativistic neutrino-radiation …

K Kiuchi, S Fujibayashi, K Hayashi, K Kyutoku… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We perform a general-relativistic neutrino-radiation magnetohydrodynamic simulation of a
one second-long binary neutron star merger on the Japanese supercomputer Fugaku using …

Evidence for X-ray emission in excess to the jet-afterglow decay 3.5 yr after the binary neutron star merger GW 170817: a new emission component

A Hajela, R Margutti, JS Bright… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
For the first∼ 3 yrs after the binary neutron star merger event GW 170817, the radio and X-
ray radiation has been dominated by emission from a structured relativistic off-axis jet …