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The THESAN project: Lyman-alpha intensity mapping of cosmic reionization
Mouza Almualla, Aaron Smith, Rahul Kannan +6
Line Intensity Mapping (LIM) has garnered attention as a powerful cosmological probe, with next-generation instruments such as SPHEREx preparing to map the evolution of large-scale…
The thesan project: public data release of radiation-hydrodynamic simulations matching reionization-era JWST observations
Enrico Garaldi, Rahul Kannan, Aaron Smith +13
Cosmological simulations serve as invaluable tools for understanding the Universe. However, the technical complexity and substantial computational resources required to generate su…
Search for Eccentric Black Hole Coalescences during the Third Observing Run of LIGO and Virgo
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1772
Despite the growing number of confident binary black hole coalescences observed through gravitational waves so far, the astrophysical origin of these binaries remains uncertain. Or…
Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1741
The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected data…
The GRANDMA network in preparation for the fourth gravitational-wave observing run
S. Agayeva, V. Aivazyan, S. Alishov +98
GRANDMA is a world-wide collaboration with the primary scientific goal of studying gravitational-wave sources, discovering their electromagnetic counterparts and characterizing the…
An updated nuclear-physics and multi-messenger astrophysics framework for binary neutron star mergers
Peter T. H. Pang, Tim Dietrich, Michael W. Coughlin +18
The multi-messenger detection of the gravitational-wave signal GW170817, the corresponding kilonova AT2017gfo and the short gamma-ray burst GRB170817A, as well as the observed afte…
In search of short gamma-ray burst optical counterpart with the Zwicky Transient Facility
Tomás Ahumada, Shreya Anand, Michael W. Coughlin +46
The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggers on-board in response to 40 short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) per year; however, their large localization regions have made the…
GRANDMA Observations of ZTF/Fink Transients during Summer 2021
V. Aivazyan, M. Almualla, S. Antier +80
We present our follow-up observations with GRANDMA of transient sources revealed by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). Over a period of six months, all ZTF triggers were examined…
Using Neural Networks to Perform Rapid High-Dimensional Kilonova Parameter Inference
Mouza Almualla, Yuhong Ning, Pouyan Salehi +4
On the 17th of August, 2017 came the simultaneous detections of GW170817, a gravitational wave that originated from the coalescence of two neutron stars, along with the gamma-ray b…
Data-driven expectations for electromagnetic counterpart searches based on LIGO/Virgo public alerts
Polina Petrov, Leo P. Singer, Michael W. Coughlin +7
Searches for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational-wave signals have redoubled since the first detection in 2017 of a binary neutron star merger with a gamma-ray burst, opt…
Inferring kilonova population properties with a hierarchical Bayesian framework I : Non-detection methodology and single-event analyses
Siddharth R. Mohite, Priyadarshini Rajkumar, Shreya Anand +17
We present : a hierarchical Bayesian framework to infer the intrinsic luminosity parameters of kilonovae (KNe) associated with gravitational-wave (GW) events, based…
Optimizing Cadences with Realistic Light Curve Filtering for Serendipitous Kilonova Discovery with Vera Rubin Observatory
Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Mouza Almualla +11
Current and future optical and near-infrared wide-field surveys have the potential of finding kilonovae, the optical and infrared counterparts to neutron star mergers, independentl…
Discovery and confirmation of the shortest gamma ray burst from a collapsar
Tomas Ahumada, Leo P. Singer, Shreya Anand +54
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the brightest and most energetic events in the universe. The duration and hardness distribution of GRBs has two clusters, now understood to reflec…
Optimizing Serendipitous Detections of Kilonovae: Cadence and Filter Selection
Mouza Almualla, Shreya Anand, Michael W. Coughlin +9
The rise of multi-messenger astronomy has brought with it the need to exploit all available data streams and learn more about the astrophysical objects that fall within its breadth…
Optical follow-up of the neutron star-black hole mergers S200105ae and S200115j
Shreya Anand, Michael W. Coughlin, Mansi M. Kasliwal +46
LIGO and Virgo's third observing run (O3) revealed the first neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger candidates in gravitational waves. These events are predicted to synthesize r-pro…
Implications of the search for optical counterparts during the second part of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run: lessons learned for future follow-up observations
Michael W. Coughlin, Tim Dietrich, Sarah Antier +9
Joint multi-messenger observations with gravitational waves and electromagnetic data offer new insights into the astrophysical studies of compact objects. The third Advanced LIGO a…
Kilonova Luminosity Function Constraints based on Zwicky Transient Facility Searches for 13 Neutron Star Mergers
Mansi M. Kasliwal, Shreya Anand, Tomas Ahumada +100
We present a systematic search for optical counterparts to 13 gravitational wave (GW) triggers involving at least one neutron star during LIGO/Virgo's third observing run. We searc…
GRANDMA Observations of Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's Third Observational Campaign
S. Antier, S. Agayeva, M. Almualla +55
GRANDMA is a network of 25 telescopes of different sizes, including both photometric and spectroscopic facilities. The network aims to coordinate follow-up observations of gravitat…
Dynamic Scheduling: Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events
Mouza Almualla, Michael W. Coughlin, Shreya Anand +3
The simultaneous detection of electromagnetic and gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars (GW170817 and GRB170817A) has ushered in a new era of "multi-messeng…