Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope

Multi-messenger astrophysics of black holes and neutron stars as probed by ground-based gravitational wave detectors: from present to future

“…While the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detectors (Figure 2, left and central panel) continue to improve their sensitivity to GWs from GRBs (Abbott et al, 2021b;2022b), these searches will undergo a leap forward when next-generation GW detector such as CE and ET, with ≈10 × the sensitivity of the current LIGO detectors (Figure 2, right panel; Figure 3), will probe the population of NS-NS mergers up to the star formation peak (and beyond for BH-BH mergers, Figure 5; Branchesi et al, 2023;Evans et al, 2023;Gupta et al, 2023a). With these next-generation detectors, we can expect each short GRB observed by satellites such as Fermi (Thompson and Wilson-Hodge, 2022) and Swift (Gehrels et al, 2004) to have a counterpart in GWs (Ronchini et al, 2022).…”