Future Science with Neutron Star Mergers

The first multimessenger detection of a neutron star merger uncovered a wealth of science that spanned several fields of physics. As the gravitational wave interferometers improve in the coming years, multimessenger detections of these events will become routine. We will discuss how studies of these events can inform on the astrophysics of the events themselves, fundamental physics, particle acceleration in the extreme regime, the equation of state of supranuclear matter, and cosmology, and the astrophysical observations necessary to uncover them.