Merging Visions Exploring Compact-Object Binaries with Gravity and Light

Merging Visions: Exploring Compact-Object Binaries with Gravity and Light brings together astrophysicists and observers to discuss the progress across the entire gravitational-wave and electromagnetic spectra. We will discuss astrophysical modeling of the source progenitors, population models, and rates, implications for the theory of gravity, the physics of gamma-ray bursts and kilonovae, the equation of state of ultradense matter, cosmology with standard sirens, and cosmic history and evolution. Discussion topics will be chosen to exploit common threads between the low and high-frequency gravitational wave and electromagnetic skies, as well with the aim of developing prospects for multi-band astrophysics of the common sources.