PIRSA:23100105

Seeing into the immediate post-merger environment of a neutron star collision

Tohuvavohu, A. (2023). Seeing into the immediate post-merger environment of a neutron star collision. Perimeter Institute. https://pirsa.org/23100105

Tohuvavohu, Aaron. Seeing into the immediate post-merger environment of a neutron star collision. Perimeter Institute, Oct. 20, 2023, https://pirsa.org/23100105 

          @misc{ pirsa_PIRSA:23100105,
            doi = {10.48660/23100105},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/23100105},
            author = {Tohuvavohu, Aaron},
            keywords = {Particle Physics},
            language = {en},
            title = {Seeing into the immediate post-merger environment of a neutron star collision},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute},
            year = {2023},
            month = {oct},
            note = {PIRSA:23100105 see, \url{https://pirsa.org}}
          }

Aaron Tohuvavohu

University of Toronto

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Abstract

The rich EM phenomenology in the seconds, minutes, and hours just before, during, and after a compact object merger encodes the magnetization of the binary components, the nature of the post-merger remnant, the neutron star equation of state, the free neutron abundance, and a wide array of other compelling physics. Unfortunately, the requirement to search, find, and classify an electromagnetic counterpart within the large GW localization regions before targeted follow-up with sensitive instruments can begin, excludes access to these earliest times, even for the most well localized GW sources. The ability to promptly localize a GW source to within the field-of-view of a narrow-field sensitive facility, would enable extraordinary science. I will discuss the science cases that require extremely early time observations, and the coordination, instruments, and analyses necessary to achieve it. These include gamma-ray imaging, novel data analysis techniques, pre-merger GW detection, faster space telescopes, and new experiments.

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