“…In this observing period, two merger events possibly involving neutron stars were reported by the LIGO-Virgo consortium: GW190425, caused by the coalescence of two compact objects of masses each in the range 1.12-2.52 M ⊙ , at ∼ 160 Mpc (Abbott et al, 2020a), and GW190814, caused by a 23 M ⊙ black hole merging with a compact object of 2.6 M ⊙ at ∼ 240 Mpc (Abbott et al, 2020b). In neither case did the search for an optical or infrared counterpart return a positive result (Coughlin et al, 2019;Gomez et al, 2019;Ackley et al, 2020;Andreoni et al, 2020;Antier et al, 2020;, owing presumably to the large distance and sky error areas, although a short GRB may have been detected by the INTEGRAL SPI-ACS simultaneously with GW190425 (Pozanenko et al, 2019). Note that all coalescing stars may have been black holes, as the neutron star nature of the binary members lighter than 3 M ⊙ could not be confirmed.…”