SkyMapper optical follow-up of gravitational wave triggers: Alert science data pipeline and LIGO/Virgo O3 run

SkyMapper optical follow-up of gravitational wave triggers: Alert science data pipeline and LIGO/Virgo O3 run

We present an overview of the SkyMapper optical follow-up programme for gravitational-wave event triggers from the LIGO/Virgo observatories, which aims at identifying early GW170817-like kilonovae out to $\sim200\,\mathrm{Mpc}$ distance. We describe our robotic facility for rapid transient follow-up...

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Veröffentlicht in:Publ.Astron.Soc.Austral 2021, Vol.38, Article e024
Hauptverfasser: Chang, Seo-Won, Onken, Christopher A., Wolf, Christian, Luvaul, Lance, Möller, Anais, Scalzo, Richard, Schmidt, Brian P., Scott, Susan M., Sura, Nikunj, Yuan, Fang
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Sprache:eng
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Instrumentation and Detectors
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Zusammenfassung:We present an overview of the SkyMapper optical follow-up programme for gravitational-wave event triggers from the LIGO/Virgo observatories, which aims at identifying early GW170817-like kilonovae out to $\sim200\,\mathrm{Mpc}$ distance. We describe our robotic facility for rapid transient follow-up, which can target most of the sky at $\delta
ISSN:1323-3580
1448-6083
DOI:10.1017/pasa.2021.17