| PROPOSAL OVERVIEW | |
| Proposal Title | OBSERVING THE GRAVITATIONAL WAVE SKY WITH XMM-NEWTON |
| Proposal Category | Supernovae, GRBs, GW Events, Supernova Remnants, Diffuse (Galactic) Emission and Isolated Neutron Stars |
| Proposal Type | LARGE PROGRAM |
| Proposal Id | 084526 |
| Number of Observations | 5 |
| Total exposure time (ks) | 716 |
| PI DETAILS | |
| PI | Dr Luigi Piro |
| Institute | INAF/IAPS |
| Country | ITALY |
| CO-INVESTIGATORS | ||
| Name | Country | |
| E. Troja | UNITED STATES | |
| A. Tiengo | ITALY | |
| H. van Eerten | UNITED KINGDOM | |
| R. Ricci | ITALY | |
| G. Ryan | UNITED STATES | |
| B. Cenko | UNITED STATES | |
| R. Sanchez Ramirez | ITALY | |
| N. Butler | UNITED STATES | |
| J. Becerra-Gonzalez | SPAIN | |
| O. Fox | UNITED STATES | |
| A. Watson | MEXICO | |
| W. Lee | MEXICO | |
| M. Wieringa | AUSTRALIA | |
| T. Sakamoto | JAPAN | |
| A. Kutyrev | UNITED STATES | |
| S. Veilleux | UNITED STATES | |
| S. Lotti | ITALY | |
| G. Novara | ITALY | |
| ABSTRACT | |
| Our discovery of the first X-ray counterpart of a GW event, followed by a long-term multi-wavelength monitoring, provided the first compelling evidence of a r elativistic outflow launched from the merger remnant and seen off-axis. During the next science run, planned to start in early 2019, the GW detectors will lead to routine detections of GW sources and their electromagnetic counterparts. We propose to exploit the unique capabilities of XMM-Newton to map out the diversity of these sources, and constrain the structure of their outflows. The next few detections of EM counterparts will shape our knowledge of GW sources for years to come, and the proposed observations will lead to seminal results in the nascent field of multi-messenger astronomy. | |
| PAPERS |
| - CLASS 1: | papers that present specific XMM-Newton observations |
| - CLASS 2: | papers that refer to published XMM-Newton results with complementary observations, follow-up analysis, or theoretical analysis |
| - CLASS 3: | further deliveries which resulted from the program and which are made available to the community (e.g. source catalogues, processed images or spectra in public data base) |
| - CLASS 4: | comments and suggestions from PI |