Mining the GW+EM sky: a community program of CXO/VLA observations of compact binary mergers
Abstract
Chandra was the first facility to detect X-ray light from a neutron star (NS) merger. In this ToO program we propose to continue Chandra's legacy in the nascent field of GW astronomy to identify, monitor, and characterize X-ray emission from compact-object mergers detected during LIGO/Virgo Observing Run 4 (O4). Our goals are three-fold: (i) to characterize the diversity of emission from NS-NS mergers; (ii) to enable breakthroughs, such as the discovery of emission from a neutron star-black hole (NS-BH) merger and (iii) to model panchromatic jet emission to constrain system parameters, particularly inclination. We will support these Chandra observations via coordinated radio follow-up with the VLA.
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Chandra Proposal
- Pub Date:
- September 2022
- Bibcode:
- 2022cxo..prop.6411X
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- Chandra Proposal ID #24510109