WST - the Wide-field Spectroscopic Telescope: surveying the Universe in the 2040’s and beyond

Session

Multi-messenger Astrophysics: the landscape and synergies

11 Mar 2025, 17:15

Auditorium Nazionale "Ernesto Capocci" (INAF - Osservatorio Astronomico di Capodimonte)

142. Transients and multi messenger astrophysics (and synergy with ACME project)

Paolo D'Avanzo (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

11/03/2025, 17:15

103. The great synergy between WST and THESEUS

Lorenzo Amati (INAF .- IASF Bologna)

11/03/2025, 17:35

The Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a mission concept developed by a large European collaboration under study by ESA since2018 and currently one of the three candidate M7 mission for a launch in mid '30s. THESEUS aims at fully exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and as key phenomena for multi-messenger astrophysics. In particlar,...

119. Einstein Telescope: the next generation European Gravitational Wave observatory

Michele Punturo

12/03/2025, 09:00

The current generation of gravitational wave (GW) detectors, Advanced Virgo and Advanced LIGO, have opened a new window on the Universe by detecting GW signals in the Hz-kHz frequency range. Monumental scientific goals have been achieved thanks to their observations.

A new generation of terrestrial and space-based interferometric GW observatories is being prepared to replace the current...

135. WST and Gravitational Waves: Exploring the Era of Next-Generation Ground-Based Observatories

Marica Branchesi (Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF))

12/03/2025, 09:20

The detection of the first gravitational-wave signal from the merger of a binary neutron star system, GW170817, together with its optical counterpart AT2017gfo, provided firm evidence that such mergers produce kilonovae and are crucial for heavy element formation in the Universe. While GW170817 demonstrated the vast potential of multi-messenger astronomy, impacting fields from relativistic...

89. WST-ET synergy for next generation gravitational wave multi-messenger observations

Sofia Bisero

12/03/2025, 09:40

With next generation gravitational wave interferometers such as the Einstein Telescope (ET) and Cosmic Explorer (CE) it will be possible to explore a larger volume of the Universe with respect to now, detecting up to 10$^{5}$ binary neutron star system mergers (BNS) per year beyond the Local Universe. The optical-NIR EM counterparts of such GW signals will be faint and will have to be found...