About this Research Topic
The 2020 Astrophysics Decadal recommended Time Domain and Multi Messenger Astrophysics as the top priority of the sustaining activities of the astrophysics portfolio. In order to highlight the most important science themes, NASA held the Time Domain and Multi Messenger Astrophysics NASA Workshop in 2022, convening scientists from across the US and the world, to highlight the science that could be addressed in future missions. This Research Topic is inspired by this workshop and the subsequent summary paper written by the workshop Science Organizing Committee and originally delivered to NASA HQ. Broadly, the themes that were addressed by the workshop are Non-terminal Sources, Jetted Transients, Merger-driven Transients, and Explosive Transients. The interdisciplinary nature of these topics makes this science highly significant to a range of fields, including cosmology and fundamental physics.
The goal of this Research Topic is to provide a comprehensive review of the science of Time Domain and Multi Messenger Astrophysics. We welcome contributions on topics concerning Time Domain and Multi Messenger Astrophysics, particularly those related to or inspired by the Time Domain and Multi Messenger Astrophysics NASA Workshop (2022). We encourage papers that highlight the potential for the variable source to be a Multi-Messenger source, i.e., the likelihood of being detected in the future with Gravitational Wave detectors (e.g., LVK, LISA) and/or neutrinos. We invite original research, methods, reviews and mini-reviews, hypothesis & theory, perspectives, data reports, brief research reports, general commentaries, and opinions.
Image credit: NASA
The goal of this Research Topic is to provide a comprehensive review of the science of Time Domain and Multi Messenger Astrophysics. We welcome contributions on topics concerning Time Domain and Multi Messenger Astrophysics, particularly those related to or inspired by the Time Domain and Multi Messenger Astrophysics NASA Workshop (2022). We encourage papers that highlight the potential for the variable source to be a Multi-Messenger source, i.e., the likelihood of being detected in the future with Gravitational Wave detectors (e.g., LVK, LISA) and/or neutrinos. We invite original research, methods, reviews and mini-reviews, hypothesis & theory, perspectives, data reports, brief research reports, general commentaries, and opinions.
Image credit: NASA
Keywords: Multimessenger, Multiwavelength, Time Domain, Transient, Variable, Gamma-rays, Gravitational Waves
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