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 …

Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma-ray burst from a collapsar

T Ahumada, LP Singer, S Anand, MW Coughlin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest and most energetic events in the
Universe. The duration and hardness distribution of GRBs has two clusters, now understood …

The Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey. I. Spectroscopic classification and the redshift completeness of local galaxy catalogs

C Fremling, AA Miller, Y Sharma, A Dugas… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is performing a three-day cadence survey of the
visible northern sky (∼ 3π) with newly found transient candidates announced via public …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …