The Third National Workshop on the SKA Project - The Italian Route to the SKAO Revolution

Session

Transients & Gravitational Waves

Session 14

5 Oct 2021, 11:20

Virtual

26. Prepping up for the SKA Fast Radio Bursts era using the Northern Cross

Maura Pilia (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

05/10/2021, 11:20

Fast Radio Bursts are enigmatic, millisecond-long, bright (typically 1-100 Jy) radio flashes of (mostly) cosmological origin (up to z ~ 2). At the time of writing, a few hundreds of events have been observed with a large range of properties in terms of fluences, spectra, time smearing and characteristics of the host galaxies - when localized. Their origin remains indeed largely debated,...

44. HIGH-RESOLUTION AND HIGH-SENSITIVITY WANTED: THE IMPACT OF SKA ON GRBs

Stefano Giarratana (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

05/10/2021, 11:40

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful explosions in the Universe. They are thought to be generated by the collapse of a massive star (long GRBs) or a NS-NS or NS-BH merger (short GRBs). Regardless of the progenitor's nature, a spinning, stellar mass BH or a highly magnetized NS is eventually produced, and this central engine launches a jet of ionized matter which interacts with the...

21. Combining gravitational waves with SKAO observations

Alvise Raccanelli (Universita' di Padova)

05/10/2021, 12:00

I will review the possibility to combine galaxy and intensity mapping observations from the SKAO with gravitational waves (GW) detected by laser interferometers. Cross-correlating Large Scale Structure (LSS) data with GWs it will be possible to test the existence and abundance of primordial black holes and perform innovative tests of gravity. Finally, I will explore new ideas for testing the...