ITC Pizza Lunch Edo Berger (Harvard)

"The Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Sources"

Abstract: The combined study of gravitational wave and electromagnetic signals from compact object mergers can provide unique insight that is not accessible through each technique alone.  I will review expected EM counterparts of compact object mergers, motivated both by existing observations of short gamma-ray bursts, as well as theoretical considerations.  I will also highlight the observational challenges of finding such counterparts in the large localization regions of gravitational wave sources