Hunting Gravitational Waves with Multi-Messenger Counterparts: Australia's Role
The first observations by a worldwide network of advanced interferometric
gravitational wave detectors offer a unique opportunity for the astronomical
community. At design sensitivity, these facilities will be able to detect
coalescing binary neutron stars to distances approaching 400 Mpc, and neutron
star-black hole systems to 1 Gpc.
Eric Howell's paper, recently accepted by the
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, describes
how Australian astronomical facilities and collaborations with the gravitational wave community can contribute to this new era of discovery, via contemporaneous follow-up observations from the radio to the optical and high energy.
The preprint is now available at
arXiv:1511.02959
Labels: 2015, gravitational waves