No confirmed counterparts during LIGO and Virgo’s third observing run bring more questions than answers to the active multi-messenger community, which is adapting collaboratively and technically as expectations evolve and more data are taken.
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I would like to thank K. Ackley, M. Almualla, S. Anand, I. Andreoni, A. Castro-Tirado, D. Coulter, R. Foley, D. Kaplan, M. Kasliwal and J. Sollerman for reading an early version of this manuscript. I also want to thank D. Kaplan for providing inspiration for Fig. 1.
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Coughlin, M.W. Lessons from counterpart searches in LIGO and Virgo’s third observing campaign. Nat Astron 4, 550–552 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-1130-3
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