PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 398 - The European Physical Society Conference on High Energy Physics (EPS-HEP2021) - T01: Astroparticle and Gravitational Waves
Search for multi-messenger events during LIGO/Virgo era
I. Tosta e Melo*  on behalf of the LIGO Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration
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Pre-published on: March 08, 2022
Published on: May 12, 2022
Abstract
Multi-messenger astronomy is a vast and expanding field as electromagnetic (EM) observations are no longer the only way of exploring the Universe. Due to the new messengers, astrophysical events with both gravitational waves (GWs) and EM emission are no longer a dream of the astronomical community.
A breakthrough for GW multi-messenger astronomy came when the LIGO-Virgo network detected a GW signal of two low-mass compact objects consistent with a binary neutron star (BNS, GW170817), an event that generated a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), and a kilonova. While GW170817 represents the testimony to BNS mergers being the progenitor of at least some GRBs, a wide range of highly energetic astrophysical phenomena is expected to be accompanied by the emission of GWs and photons. Here we present an unmodelled method to search for GWs having gamma and radio counterparts, using the LIGO/Virgo data and observations of partner telescopes. We also discuss the most recent results of the unmodelled coherent searches targeting astrophysical events during the first part of the LIGO-Virgo third observing run (O3a): 105 GRBs detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.398.0111
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