Searching for Neutron Star Mergers in the Absence of Gravitational Waves with Optical Afterglow Emission

Haille M. L. Perkins, Gautham Narayan, Brian D. Fields +2

With the forth observing run of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA gravitational-wave network, which enabled the discovery of the kilonova (KN) counterpart to GW170817, ending with no new confir…