Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2019 Joint Fall Meeting of the Texas Sections of APS, AAPT and Zone 13 of the SPS
Volume 64, Number 18
Friday–Saturday, October 25–26, 2019; Lubbock, Texas
Session A02: Plenary I |
Hide Abstracts |
Chair: Tom Maccarone, Texas Tech University Room: Student Union Building Red Raider Ballroom |
Friday, October 25, 2019 9:15AM - 9:51AM |
A02.00001: Multi-messenger time-domain astronomy: GW170817, current GW+EM searches, and the future Invited Speaker: Alessandra Corsi On 2017 August 17, the field of gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy made the big leagues with a dazzling discovery. After several GW detections of black hole (BH)-BH mergers with no convincing electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, advanced LIGO and Virgo scored their first direct detection of GWs from a binary neutron star (NS) merger, an event dubbed GW170817. Soon after the GW discovery, GW170817 started gifting the astronomical community with an EM counterpart spanning all bands of the spectrum. With the on-going LIGO-Virgo third observing run, we are officially in the era of public GW alerts and the hunt is on for more multi-messenger detections. In this talk, I will review what we have learned from GW170817 focusing on its radio counterpart, what questions remain open, and what are the prospects for future EM plus GW studies of the transient sky. [Preview Abstract] |
Follow Us |
Engage
Become an APS Member |
My APS
Renew Membership |
Information for |
About APSThe American Physical Society (APS) is a non-profit membership organization working to advance the knowledge of physics. |
© 2024 American Physical Society
| All rights reserved | Terms of Use
| Contact Us
Headquarters
1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3844
(301) 209-3200
Editorial Office
100 Motor Pkwy, Suite 110, Hauppauge, NY 11788
(631) 591-4000
Office of Public Affairs
529 14th St NW, Suite 1050, Washington, D.C. 20045-2001
(202) 662-8700