TY - JOUR
T1 - Searching for very-high-energy electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave events with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
AU - CTA Consortium
AU - Patricelli, Barbara
AU - Carosi, Alessandro
AU - Nava, Lara
AU - Seglar-Arroyo, Monica
AU - Schüssler, Fabian
AU - Stamerra, Antonio
AU - Adelfio, Andrea
AU - Ashkar, Halim
AU - Bulgarelli, Andrea
AU - Di Girolamo, Tristano
AU - Di Piano, Ambra
AU - Gasparetto, Thomas
AU - Green, Jarred
AU - Longo, Francesco
AU - Agudo, Ivan
AU - Berti, Alessio
AU - Bissaldi, Elisabetta
AU - Cella, Giancarlo
AU - Circiello, Antonio
AU - Covino, Stefano
AU - Ghirlanda, Giancarlo
AU - Humensky, Brian
AU - Inoue, Susumu
AU - Lefaucheur, Julien
AU - Filipovic, Miroslav
AU - Razzano, Massimiliano
AU - Ribeiro, Deivid
AU - Sergijenko, Olga
AU - Stratta, Giulia
AU - Vergani, Susanna
AU - Abdalla, H.
AU - Abe, H.
AU - Abe, S.
AU - Abusleme, A.
AU - Acero, F.
AU - Acharyya, A.
AU - Acín Portella, V.
AU - Ackley, K.
AU - Adam, R.
AU - Adams, C.
AU - Adhikari, S. S.
AU - Aguado-Ruesga, I.
AU - Agudo, I.
AU - Aguilera, R.
AU - Aguirre-Santaella, A.
AU - Aharonian, F.
AU - Alberdi, A.
AU - Alfaro, R.
AU - Alfaro, J.
AU - Fouque, N.
AU - Fortson, Lucy F
N1 - Funding Information:
We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the agencies and organizations listed here: http://www.cta-observatory.org/consortium_acknowledgments.
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PY - 2022/3/18
Y1 - 2022/3/18
N2 - The detection of electromagnetic (EM) emission following the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 opened the era of multi-messenger astronomy with GWs and provided the first direct evidence that at least a fraction of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). GRBs are also expected to emit very-high energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) photons, as proven by the recent MAGIC and H.E.S.S. observations. One of the challenges for future multi-messenger observations will be the detection of such VHE emission from GRBs in association with GWs. In the next years, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be a key instrument for the EM follow-up of GW events in the VHE range, owing to its unprecedented sensitivity, rapid response, and capability to monitor a large sky area via scan-mode operation. We present the CTA GW follow-up program, with a focus on the searches for short GRBs possibly associated with BNS mergers. We investigate the possible observational strategies and we outline the prospects for the detection of VHE EM counterparts to transient GW events.
AB - The detection of electromagnetic (EM) emission following the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 opened the era of multi-messenger astronomy with GWs and provided the first direct evidence that at least a fraction of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are progenitors of short Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). GRBs are also expected to emit very-high energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) photons, as proven by the recent MAGIC and H.E.S.S. observations. One of the challenges for future multi-messenger observations will be the detection of such VHE emission from GRBs in association with GWs. In the next years, the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be a key instrument for the EM follow-up of GW events in the VHE range, owing to its unprecedented sensitivity, rapid response, and capability to monitor a large sky area via scan-mode operation. We present the CTA GW follow-up program, with a focus on the searches for short GRBs possibly associated with BNS mergers. We investigate the possible observational strategies and we outline the prospects for the detection of VHE EM counterparts to transient GW events.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85145575514
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 395
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 998
T2 - 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2021
Y2 - 12 July 2021 through 23 July 2021
ER -