24–28 Mar 2025
Florence, Italy
Europe/Rome timezone

Envisioning Tomorrow: INAF prospects and challenges for multimessenger astronomy in the era of the next electromagnetic future facilities

25 Mar 2025, 14:00
30m
Florence, Italy

Florence, Italy

Piazza Adua, 1, 50123 Firenze, Italia

Speaker

Silvia Piranomonte (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Description

INAF will play a key role in the newborn multi-messenger astronomy field allowing us to study and identify the likely faint and rapidly fading electromagnetic counterparts of the hundreds gravitational wave (GW) events expected by the 2nd generation GW detectors network at full sensitivity together with upcoming electromagnetic facilities like Rubin telescope.
In this talk, I will present all the activities we are carrying out to optimize the response of the Italian and European network of facilities to expected GW triggers, and how the team is working in the context of the search for electromagnetic counterparts of GW sources and their spectroscopic characterization, also in anticipation of the arrival of the Einstein Telescope, in which our large community is involved.
All the activities are expected to provide means and opportunities to the Italian and European astronomical communities to have a leading role in the GW and Time Domain Astronomy.

Primary author

Silvia Piranomonte (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

Co-author

Andrea Melandri (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

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