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2021 · ARTICLE

Multi-messenger astrophysics with THESEUS in the 2030s

Riccardo Ciolfi; Giulia Stratta; Marica Branchesi; Bruce Gendre; Stefan Grimm; Jan Harms; Gavin Paul Lamb; Antonio Martin-Carrillo; Ayden McCann; Gor Oganesyan; Eliana Palazzi; Samuele Ronchini; Andrea Rossi; Om Sharan Salafia; Lana Salmon; Stefano Ascenzi; Antonio Capone; Silvia Celli; Simone Dall'Osso; Irene Di Palma; Michela Fasano; Paolo Fermani; Dafne Guetta; Lorraine Hanlon; Eric Howell; Stephane Paltani; Luciano Rezzolla; Serena Vinciguerra; Angela Zegarelli; Lorenzo Amati; Andrew Blain; Enrico Bozzo; Sylvain Chaty; Paolo D'Avanzo; fnmMassimiliano De Pasquale; Hüsne Dereli-Bégué; Giancarlo Ghirlanda; Andreja Gomboc; Diego Götz; Istvan Horvath; Rene Hudec; Luca Izzo; Emeric Le Floch; Liang Li; Francesco Longo; S. Komossa; Albert K. H. Kong; Sandro Mereghetti; Roberto Mignani; Antonios Nathanail; Paul T. O'Brien; Julian P. Osborne; Asaf Pe'er; Silvia Piranomonte; Piero Rosati; Sandra Savaglio; Fabian Schüssler; Olga Sergijenko; Lijing Shao; Nial Tanvir; Sara Turriziani; Yuji Urata; Maurice Putten; Susanna Vergani; Silvia Zane; Bing Zhang

Journal
Experimental Astronomy 52 (3) pp. 245-275
DOI
10.1007/s10686-021-09795-9
arXiv
2104.09534 [astro-ph.IM]
ADS
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ExA....52..245C
IGC authors
Samuele Ronchini
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Monica Rincon Ramirez

The IGC wordmark was created by Monica Rincon Ramirez while she was a graduate student at the Institute. Monica enjoys drawing new connections between fundamental theory and observations. Her graduate work included general relativity, loop quantum gravity, and quantum fields in cosmological backgrounds; her thesis focused on effective quantum corrections to gravitational phenomena from spinfoams and applications to cosmology. She received her PhD in 2024.

The wordmark symbolizes the scope of research at the IGC. The base represents quantum gravity, evoking the quantum geometrical picture from spinfoams and loop quantum gravity — approaches studied at the Center for Fundamental Theory. The middle shows galaxies embedded in a smooth surface characteristic of spacetime in general relativity and the larger physical scales studied at the Center for Theoretical and Observational Cosmology. The top curves to an extreme representing a supermassive black hole accompanied by an energetic jet, with a binary black hole pair nearby — the high-energy phenomena studied at the Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics.