Published October 7, 2013
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The transient gravitational-wave sky
Abstract
Interferometric detectors will very soon give us an unprecedented view of the gravitational-wave sky, and in particular of the explosive and transient Universe. Now is the time to challenge our theoretical understanding of short-duration gravitational-wave signatures from cataclysmic events, their connection to more traditional electromagnetic and particle astrophysics, and the data analysis techniques that will make the observations a reality. This paper summarizes the state of the art, future science opportunities, and current challenges in understanding gravitational-wave transients.
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© 2013 Institute of Physics. Received 7 May 2013. Published 6 September 2013. The 'Gravitational Wave Bursts' workshops in Chichen-Itza, Mexico (9–1 December 2009) and Tobermory, Scotland (29–31 May 2012) were supported by National Science Foundation grant numbers 0946361 and 1231548. The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and 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. The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council, the International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India, the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy, the Spanish Ministerio de Educaciόn y Ciencia, the Conselleria d'Economia, Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Royal Society, the Scottish Funding Council, the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the Carnegie Trust, the Leverhulme Trust, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation. We thank the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC-Santa Barbara, supported in part by NSF grant PHY11-25915, for hosting the workshop 'Chirps, Mergers and Explosions: The Final Moments of Coalescing Compact Binaries.' The Columbia Experimental Gravity group is grateful for the generous support from Columbia University in the City of New York and from the National Science Foundation under cooperative agreement PHY-0847182. E.B. is supported by National Science Foundation through CAREER Award Number PHY-1055103. KB acknowledges NASA grant number NNX09AV06A and NSF grant numbers HRD 1242090 awarded to the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, UTB. SB and KK acknowledge support from the German Science Foundation SFB/TR7 'Gravitational Wave Astronomy.' LC acknowledges National Science Foundation grant numbers PHY-0653550 and PHY-0955773. LL was supported in part by an NSERC through discovery grant. Research at Perimeter Institute is supported through Industry Canada and by the Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation. PCD acknowledges Spanish Ministerio de Educaciόn y Ciencia grant number AYA 2010-21097-C03-01, Generalitat Valenciana grant number PROMETEO-2009-103 and ERC starting grant number CAMAP-259276. The work of CF is under the auspices of the US Department of Energy, and supported by its contract W-7405-ENG-36 to Los Alamos National Laboratory. LSF acknowledges National Science Foundation grant numbers PHY-0653462, CBET-0940924 and PHY-0969857. BG and RP acknowledge support from NSF grant number AST-1009396 and NASA grant number NNX12AO67G. PL acknowledges National Science Foundation grant numbers 0903973 and 1205864. DMS acknowledges National Science Foundation grant numbers PHY-0925345 and PHY-0955825. We wish to thank Christian Ott and Harald Pfeiffer for useful contributions to this review.Attached Files
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- 0946361
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- 1231548
- NSF
- Max-Planck Society
- GEO600
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Australian Research Council
- International Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of Australia
- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)
- Ministerio de Educaciόn y Ciencia, the Conselleria d'Economia, Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- Carnegie Trust
- Leverhulme Trust
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Research Corporation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- PHY11-25915
- NSF
- City of New York Columbia University
- PHY-0847182
- NSF
- PHY-1055103
- NSF
- NNX09AV06A
- NASA
- HRD 1242090
- NSF
- SFB/TR7
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
- PHY-0653550
- NSF
- PHY-0955773
- NSF
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Industry Canada
- Province of Ontario through the Ministry of Research and Innovation
- AYA 2010-21097-C03-01
- Ministerio de Educaciόn y Ciencia (MINECO)
- PROMETEO-2009-103
- Generalitat Valenciana
- CAMAP-259276
- European Research Council (ERC)
- W-7405-ENG-36
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- PHY-0653462
- NSF
- CBET-0940924
- NSF
- PHY-0969857
- NSF
- AST-1009396
- NSF
- NNX12AO67G
- NASA
- 0903973
- NSF
- 1205864
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- PHY-0925345
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