TY - JOUR
T1 - Colloquium
T2 - Multimessenger astronomy with gravitational waves and high-energy neutrinos
AU - Ando, Shin'Ichiro
AU - Baret, Bruny
AU - Bartos, Imre
AU - Bouhou, Boutayeb
AU - Chassande-Mottin, Eric
AU - Corsi, Alessandra
AU - Di Palma, Irene
AU - Dietz, Alexander
AU - Donzaud, Corinne
AU - Eichler, David
AU - Finley, Chad
AU - Guetta, Dafne
AU - Halzen, Francis
AU - Jones, Gareth
AU - Kandhasamy, Shivaraj
AU - Kotake, Kei
AU - Kouchner, Antoine
AU - Mandic, Vuk
AU - Márka, Szabolcs
AU - Márka, Zsuzsa
AU - Moscoso, Luciano
AU - Papa, Maria Alessandra
AU - Piran, Tsvi
AU - Pradier, Thierry
AU - Romero, Gustavo E.
AU - Sutton, Patrick
AU - Thrane, Eric
AU - Van Elewyck, Véronique
AU - Waxman, Eli
N1 - Argentinian CONICET [PIP 0078/2010]; Columbia University in the City of New York; U.S. National Science Foundation [PHY-0847182]; European Union (European Research Council) [NEUTEL-APC 224898]; French Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-08-JCJC-0061-01]; Israel-U.S. Binational Science Foundation; Israel Science Foundation; Joan and Robert Arnow Chair of Theoretical Astrophysics; Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia [AYA2010-21782-C03-01]; Swedish Research Council; UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [PP/F001096/1, ST/I000887/1]The authors are indebted to many of their colleagues for frequent and fruitful discussions. In particular, they are grateful to hundreds of collaborators for making these large-scale experiments a reality. They also thank Alexa Staley, David Murphy, and Maggie Tse for their careful reading of the last version of the manuscript. The authors gratefully acknowledge support from the Argentinian CONICET (Grant No. PIP 0078/2010), Columbia University in the City of New York and the U.S. National Science Foundation under cooperative agreement No. PHY-0847182, the European Union No. FP7 (European Research Council Grant GRBs and Marie Curie European Reintegration Grant No. NEUTEL-APC 224898), the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (No. ANR-08-JCJC-0061-01), the Israel-U.S. Binational Science Foundation, the Israel Science Foundation, the Joan and Robert Arnow Chair of Theoretical Astrophysics, the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia (Grant No. AYA2010-21782-C03-01), the Swedish Research Council and the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Grants No. PP/F001096/1 and No. ST/I000887/1.
PY - 2013/10/2
Y1 - 2013/10/2
N2 - Many of the astrophysical sources and violent phenomena observed in our Universe are potential emitters of gravitational waves and high-energy cosmic radiation, including photons, hadrons, and presumably also neutrinos. Both gravitational waves (GW) and high-energy neutrinos (HEN) are cosmic messengers that may escape much denser media than photons. They travel unaffected over cosmological distances, carrying information from the inner regions of the astrophysical engines from which they are emitted (and from which photons and charged cosmic rays cannot reach us). For the same reasons, such messengers could also reveal new, hidden sources that have not been observed by conventional photon-based astronomy. Coincident observation of GWs and HENs may thus play a critical role in multimessenger astronomy. This is particularly true at the present time owing to the advent of a new generation of dedicated detectors: the neutrino telescopes IceCube at the South Pole and ANTARES in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the GW interferometers Virgo in Italy and LIGO in the United States. Starting from 2007, several periods of concomitant data taking involving these detectors have been conducted. More joint data sets are expected with the next generation of advanced detectors that are to be operational by 2015, with other detectors, such as KAGRA in Japan, joining in the future. Combining information from these independent detectors can provide original ways of constraining the physical processes driving the sources and also help confirm the astrophysical origin of a GW or HEN signal in case of coincident observation. Given the complexity of the instruments, a successful joint analysis of this combined GW and HEN observational data set will be possible only if the expertise and knowledge of the data is shared between the two communities. This Colloquium aims at providing an overview of both theoretical and experimental state of the art and perspectives for GW and HEN multimessenger astronomy.
AB - Many of the astrophysical sources and violent phenomena observed in our Universe are potential emitters of gravitational waves and high-energy cosmic radiation, including photons, hadrons, and presumably also neutrinos. Both gravitational waves (GW) and high-energy neutrinos (HEN) are cosmic messengers that may escape much denser media than photons. They travel unaffected over cosmological distances, carrying information from the inner regions of the astrophysical engines from which they are emitted (and from which photons and charged cosmic rays cannot reach us). For the same reasons, such messengers could also reveal new, hidden sources that have not been observed by conventional photon-based astronomy. Coincident observation of GWs and HENs may thus play a critical role in multimessenger astronomy. This is particularly true at the present time owing to the advent of a new generation of dedicated detectors: the neutrino telescopes IceCube at the South Pole and ANTARES in the Mediterranean Sea, as well as the GW interferometers Virgo in Italy and LIGO in the United States. Starting from 2007, several periods of concomitant data taking involving these detectors have been conducted. More joint data sets are expected with the next generation of advanced detectors that are to be operational by 2015, with other detectors, such as KAGRA in Japan, joining in the future. Combining information from these independent detectors can provide original ways of constraining the physical processes driving the sources and also help confirm the astrophysical origin of a GW or HEN signal in case of coincident observation. Given the complexity of the instruments, a successful joint analysis of this combined GW and HEN observational data set will be possible only if the expertise and knowledge of the data is shared between the two communities. This Colloquium aims at providing an overview of both theoretical and experimental state of the art and perspectives for GW and HEN multimessenger astronomy.
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U2 - 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.1401
DO - 10.1103/RevModPhys.85.1401
M3 - Article
SN - 0034-6861
VL - 85
SP - 1401
EP - 1420
JO - Reviews of Modern Physics
JF - Reviews of Modern Physics
IS - 4
ER -