2017/11/08 by P. Bacon, Bacon, P., V. Savchenko +5
Physics and Astronomy · #FOS: Physical sciences #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1711.03074
openalex publication_date 2017/11/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
By extrapolating the number of detections made during the first LIGO science run, tenths of gravitational wave signals from binary black hole mergers are anticipated in upcoming LIGO Virgo science runs. Finding an electromagnetic counterpart from compact binary merger events would be a capital achievement. We evaluate the ability of current wide-field X- and gamma-ray telescopes aboard INTEGRAL to find such counterparts thanks to an end-to-end simulation for estimating the fraction of the sources that can be followed up and/or detected.