Multi-messenger channel
Gravitational Waves + Radio
Following a gravitational-wave source into the radio, where the slow afterglow of a merger's jet ploughing into surrounding gas unfolds over weeks to months, revealing the geometry and energetics of the outflow.
Detectors, messengers & sources
Knowledge connections
- Associated withMulti-Messenger Astronomy
- Associated withRadio
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.