1. Multi-Messenger Astronomy with Extremely Large Telescopes
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Chornock, Ryan, Cowperthwaite, Philip S, Margutti, Raffaella, Milisavljevic, Dan, Alexander, Kate D, Andreoni, Igor, Arcavi, Iair, Baldeschi, Adriano, Barnes, Jennifer, Bellm, Eric, Beniamini, Paz, Berger, Edo, Berry, Christopher PL, Bianco, Federica, Blanchard, Peter K, Bloom, Joshua S, Burke-Spolaor, Sarah, Burns, Eric, Carbone, Dario, Cenko, S Bradley, Coppejans, Deanne, Corsi, Alessandra, Coughlin, Michael, Drout, Maria R, Eftekhari, Tarraneh, Foley, Ryan J, Fong, Wen-fai, Fox, Ori, Frail, Dale A, Giannios, Dimitrios, Golkhou, V Zach, Gomez, Sebastian, Graham, Melissa, Graur, Or, Hajela, Aprajita, Hallinan, Gregg, Hanna, Chad, Hotokezaka, Kenta, Kalogera, Vicky, Kasen, Daniel, Kasliwal, Mansi, Kathirgamaraju, Adithan, Kerzendorf, Wolfgang E, Kilpatrick, Charles D, Laskar, Tanmoy, Levesque, Emily, MacFadyen, Andrew, Macias, Phillip, Margalit, Ben, Matheson, Thomas, Metzger, Brian D, Miller, Adam A, Modjaz, Maryam, Murase, Kohta, Murguia-Berthier, Ariadna, Nissanke, Samaya, Palmese, Antonella, Pankow, Chris, Paterson, Kerry, Patton, Locke, Perna, Rosalba, Radice, David, Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico, Rest, Armin, Rho, Jeonghee, Rojas-Bravo, Cesar, Roth, Nathaniel C, Safarzadeh, Mohammad, Sand, David, Sbarufatti, Boris, Siegel, Daniel M, Sironi, Lorenzo, Soares-Santos, Marcelle, Sravan, Niharika, Starrfield, Sumner, Street, Rachel A, Stringfellow, Guy S, Tchekhovskoy, Alexander, Terreran, Giacomo, Valenti, Stefano, Villar, V Ashley, Wang, Yihan, Wheeler, J Craig, Williams, G Grant, and Zrake, Jonathan
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astro-ph.HE ,astro-ph.CO ,astro-ph.SR - Abstract
The field of time-domain astrophysics has entered the era of Multi-messengerAstronomy (MMA). One key science goal for the next decade (and beyond) will beto characterize gravitational wave (GW) and neutrino sources using the nextgeneration of Extremely Large Telescopes (ELTs). These studies will have abroad impact across astrophysics, informing our knowledge of the production andenrichment history of the heaviest chemical elements, constrain the densematter equation of state, provide independent constraints on cosmology,increase our understanding of particle acceleration in shocks and jets, andstudy the lives of black holes in the universe. Future GW detectors willgreatly improve their sensitivity during the coming decade, as willnear-infrared telescopes capable of independently finding kilonovae fromneutron star mergers. However, the electromagnetic counterparts tohigh-frequency (LIGO/Virgo band) GW sources will be distant and faint and thusdemand ELT capabilities for characterization. ELTs will be important andnecessary contributors to an advanced and complete multi-messenger network.
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- 2019