https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201612102001
Gravitational waves and multimessenger astronomy
1 Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
2 INFN Sezione di Roma, Rome, Italy
a e-mail: fulvio.ricci@roma1.infn.it
Published online: 6 July 2016
It is widely expected that in the coming quinquennium the first gravitational wave signal will be directly detected. The ground-based advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors are being upgraded to a sensitivity level such that we expect to be measure a significant binary merger rate. Gravitational waves events are likely to be accompanied by electromagnetic counterparts and neutrino emission carrying complementary information to those associated to the gravitational signals. If it becomes possible to measure all these forms of radiation in concert, we will end up an impressive increase in the comprehension of the whole phenomenon. In the following we summarize the scientific outcome of the interferometric detectors in the past configuration. Then we focus on some of the potentialities of the advanced detectors once used in the new context of the multimessenger astronomy.
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