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 at the outer layers of the source. 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 Institute of Physics. Received 16 January 2012, in final form 21 February 2012. Published 1 June 2012. The author thanks the conference organizers for an extremely stimulating and enjoyable meeting. The author represents 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. 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 Educación y Ciencia, the Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovació of the Govern de les Illes Balears, the Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter supported by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education, the FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science, 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. This paper has LIGO document number LIGO-P1100189.Additional details
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- Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom
- Max Planck Society
- State of Niedersachsen/Germany
- Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare
- French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
- 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 of Italy
- Spanish Ministerio de Educaciόn y Ciencia
- Conselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovaciό of the Govern de les Illes Balears
- Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
- Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education
- FOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish Science
- Royal Society
- Scottish Funding Council
- Scottish Universities Physics Alliance
- NASA
- Carnegie Trust
- Leverhulme Trust
- David and Lucile Packard Foundation
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
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