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Neutron Star Mergers And How To Study Them, Eric Burns
Neutron Star Mergers And How To Study Them, Eric Burns
Faculty Publications
Neutron star mergers are the canonical multimessenger events: they have been observed through photons for half a century, gravitational waves since 2017, and are likely to be sources of neutrinos and cosmic rays.Studies of these events enable unique insights into astrophysics, particles in the ultrarelativistic regime, the heavy element enrichment history through cosmic time, cosmology, dense matter, and fundamental physics. Uncovering this science requires vast observational resources, unparalleled coordination, and advancements in theory and simulation, which are constrained by our current understanding of nuclear, atomic, and astroparticle physics. This review begins with a summary of our current knowledge of these …
Prospects For Observing And Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients With Advanced Ligo, Advanced Virgo And Kagra, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, T. Akutsu, G. Allen, A. Allocca, M. A. Aloy, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, M. Ando, S. V. Angelova, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, Koya Arai, Y. Arai, S. Araki
Prospects For Observing And Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients With Advanced Ligo, Advanced Virgo And Kagra, B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott, S. Abraham, F. Acernese, K. Ackley, C. Adams, V. B. Adya, C. Affeldt, M. Agathos, K. Agatsuma, N. Aggarwal, O. D. Aguiar, L. Aiello, A. Ain, P. Ajith, T. Akutsu, G. Allen, A. Allocca, M. A. Aloy, P. A. Altin, A. Amato, A. Ananyeva, S. B. Anderson, W. G. Anderson, M. Ando, S. V. Angelova, S. Antier, S. Appert, K. Arai, Koya Arai, Y. Arai, S. Araki
Faculty Publications
We present our current best estimate of the plausible observing scenarios for the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors over the next several years, with the intention of providing information to facilitate planning for multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves. We estimate the sensitivity of the network to transient gravitational-wave signals for the third (O3), fourth (O4) and fifth observing (O5) runs, including the planned upgrades of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. We study the capability of the network to determine the sky location of the source for gravitational-wave signals from the inspiral of binary systems of …
Measurements And Mitigation Of Scattered Light Noise In Ligo, Corey Daniel Austin
Measurements And Mitigation Of Scattered Light Noise In Ligo, Corey Daniel Austin
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The Advanced LIGO (aLIGO) detectors use 1064 nm lasers to measure the tiny fluctuations in spacetime that occur when gravitational waves pass through the earth. LIGO makes use of advanced coating methods and materials to limit the amount of light that scatters from the main beam, but some amount of light does scatter. This stray light can interact with surfaces inside the interferometer that are not seismically isolated and then recombine with the main beam, introducing excess noise into the gravitational wave channel. This thesis reviews the methods for modeling scattered light with ray tracing software and analytical models, for …
Burstcube: A Cubesat For Gravitational Wave Counterparts, Jeremy S. Perkins, Isabella Brewer, Michael S. Briggs, Alessandro Bruno, Eric Burns, Regina Caputo, Brad Cenko, Antonino Cucchiara, Georgia De Nolfo, Jeff Dumonthier, Sean Griffin, Lorraine Hanlon, Dieter H. Hartmann, Boyan Hristov, Michelle Hui, Alyson Joens, Carolyn Kierans, Marc Kippen, Dan Kocevski, John Krizmanic, Sibasish Laha, Amy Lien, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Sheila Mcbreen, Julie E. Mcenery, J. G. Mitchell, Lee Mitchell, David Morris, David Murphy, Judith L. Racusin, Oliver Roberts, Peter Shawhan, Jacob R. Smith
Burstcube: A Cubesat For Gravitational Wave Counterparts, Jeremy S. Perkins, Isabella Brewer, Michael S. Briggs, Alessandro Bruno, Eric Burns, Regina Caputo, Brad Cenko, Antonino Cucchiara, Georgia De Nolfo, Jeff Dumonthier, Sean Griffin, Lorraine Hanlon, Dieter H. Hartmann, Boyan Hristov, Michelle Hui, Alyson Joens, Carolyn Kierans, Marc Kippen, Dan Kocevski, John Krizmanic, Sibasish Laha, Amy Lien, Israel Martinez-Castellanos, Sheila Mcbreen, Julie E. Mcenery, J. G. Mitchell, Lee Mitchell, David Morris, David Murphy, Judith L. Racusin, Oliver Roberts, Peter Shawhan, Jacob R. Smith
Faculty Publications
BurstCube aims to expand sky coverage in order to detect, localize, and rapidly disseminate information about gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). BurstCube is a'6U' CubeSat with an instrument comprised of 4 Cesium Iodide (CsI) scintillators coupled to arrays of Silicon photo-multipliers (SiPMs) and will be sensitive to gamma-rays between 50 keV and 1 MeV. BurstCube will assist current observatories, such as Swift and Fermi, in the detection of GRBs as well as provide astronomical context to gravitational wave (GW) events detected by LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA. BurstCube is currently in its development phase with a launch readiness date in early 2022.