Putting the Astronomy in Gravitational Wave Astronomy

          @misc{ scivideos_PIRSA:11040075,
            doi = {10.48660/11040075},
            url = {https://pirsa.org/11040075},
            author = {Price, Lawrence},
            keywords = {Cosmology},
            language = {en},
            title = {Putting the Astronomy in Gravitational Wave Astronomy},
            publisher = {Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics},
            year = {2011},
            month = {apr},
            note = {PIRSA:11040075 see, \url{https://scivideos.org/index.php/pirsa/11040075}}
          }
          

Abstract

One of the great promises of the Advanced LIGO era is the prospect of integrating gravitational wave astronomy into the greater astronomical community. This will allow for measurements that cross spectral bands and provide new paths for insight into some of the most violent processes in the universe. In this talk I'll discuss past and present efforts with Initial and Enhanced LIGO to search for transients with both electromagnetic and gravitational wave signatures, with special focus on electromagnetic followups of inspiral events and an eye towards the advanced detector era. In addition, I'll discuss some work on detecting gravitational waves with pulsar timing experiments, which seeks to bridge the gap between gravitational wave and electromagnetic astronomers in a different way.