Multi-messenger channel
Gravitational Waves + Optical
The optical hunt for a gravitational-wave counterpart — the wide-field survey campaign that finds and follows the fading glow of a kilonova, measuring how a merger's freshly-made heavy elements light up and cool.
Detectors, messengers & sources
Knowledge connections
- Associated withMulti-Messenger Astronomy
- Associated withKilonova
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- LIGO Scientific CollaborationLIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration
Direct detections of gravitational waves from compact-object mergers.