Astronomy and astrophysics with gravitational waves in the Advanced Detector Era
Abstract
With the advanced gravitational wave detectors coming on line in the next 5 years, we expect to make the first detections of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources, and study the properties of the waves themselves as tests of General Relativity. In addition, these gravitational waves will be powerful tools for the study of their astrophysical sources and source populations. They carry information that is quite complementary to what can be learned from electromagnetic or neutrino observations, probing the central gravitational engines that power the electromagnetic emissions. Preparations are being made to enable near-simultaneous observations of both gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations of transient sources, using low-latency search pipelines and rapid sky localization. We will review the many opportunities for multi-messenger astronomy and astrophysics with gravitational waves enabled by the advanced detectors, and the preparations that are being made to quickly and fully exploit them.
Additional Information
© 2012 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. The author thanks the conference organizers for an extremely stimulating and enjoyable meeting. The author is representing the LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, and gratefully acknowledges the rich trove of information produced by his colleagues that has enabled this work. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory, the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom, the Max- Planck-Society, and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector, and the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare and the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique for the construction and operation of the Virgo detector. This paper has LIGO document number LIGO-P1100189.Additional details
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- CaltechAUTHORS:20121101-095317475
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC)
- Max-Planck-Society
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
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2012-11-14Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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- Journal of Physics Conference Series
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- 375
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- LIGO Document
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- LIGO-P1100189