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 …

Compact binary coalescences: Astrophysical processes and lessons learned

M Spera, AA Trani, M Mencagli - Galaxies, 2022 - mdpi.com
On 11 February 2016, the LIGO and Virgo scientific collaborations announced the first direct
detection of gravitational waves, a signal caught by the LIGO interferometers on 14 …

Fast flavor instability in hypermassive neutron star disk outflows

R Fernández, S Richers, N Mulyk, S Fahlman - Physical Review D, 2022 - APS
We examine the effect of neutrino flavor transformation by the fast flavor instability (FFI) on
long-term mass ejection from accretion disks formed after neutron star mergers. Neutrino …

Dark photon superradiance: Electrodynamics and multimessenger signals

N Siemonsen, C Mondino, D Egana-Ugrinovic… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the electrodynamics of a kinetically mixed dark photon cloud that forms through
superradiance around a spinning black hole, and design strategies to search for the …

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 …

A broad grid of 2D kilonova emission models

RT Wollaeger, CL Fryer, EA Chase… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Depending upon the properties of their compact remnants and the physics included in the
models, simulations of neutron star mergers can produce a broad range of ejecta properties …

Kilonova detectability with wide-field instruments

EA Chase, B O'Connor, CL Fryer, E Troja… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Kilonovae are ultraviolet, optical, and infrared transients powered by the radioactive decay
of heavy elements following a neutron star merger. Joint observations of kilonovae and …

Target-of-opportunity observations of gravitational-wave events with Vera C. Rubin observatory

I Andreoni, R Margutti, OS Salafia… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star (NS) merger
GW170817 has opened the era of gravitational-wave multimessenger astronomy. Rapid …

No detectable kilonova counterpart is expected for o3 neutron star–black hole candidates

JP Zhu, S Wu, YP Yang, B Zhang, YW Yu… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the tidal disruption probability of potential neutron star–black hole (NSBH)
merger gravitational-wave (GW) events, including GW190426_152155, GW190814 …

A tale of two mergers: constraints on kilonova detection in two short GRBs at z ∼ 0.5

B O'Connor, E Troja, S Dichiara… - Monthly Notices of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present a detailed multiwavelength analysis of two short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs)
detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory: GRB 160624A at= 0.483 and GRB 200522A …