Astro2020 Science White Paper: Radio Counterparts of Compact Object Mergers in the Era of Gravitational-Wave Astronomy
| Autor: | Corsi, Alessandra, Lloyd-Ronning, Nicole M., Carbone, Dario, Frail, Dale A., Lazzati, Davide, Murphy, Eric J., O'Shaughnessy, Richard, Owen, Benjamin J., Sand, David J., Fong, Wen-Fai, Spekkens, Kristine, Seymour, Andrew |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | GHz radio astronomy has played a fundamental role in the recent dazzling discovery of GW170817, a neutron star (NS)-NS merger observed in both gravitational waves (GWs) and light at all wavelengths. Here we show how the expected progress in sensitivity of ground-based GW detectors over the next decade calls for U.S.-based GHz radio arrays to be improved beyond current levels. We discuss specifically how several new scientific opportunities would emerge in multi-messenger time-domain astrophysics if a next generation GHz radio facility with sensitivity and resolution $10\times$ better than the current Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) were to work in tandem with ground-based GW detectors. These opportunities include probing the properties, structure, and size of relativistic jets and wide-angle ejecta from NS-NS mergers, as well as unraveling the physics of their progenitors via host galaxy studies. Comment: 8 pages, 5 figures, Submitted to the Astro2020 Decadal Survey |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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