Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011aas...21743227q&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #432.27; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors have now completed joint data collection in their initial configurations. Phenomena searched for include the gravitational signatures of compact binary mergers, stellar core collapse, black hole creation, and other highly energetic astrophysical events. An important goal of this joint run was to search for EM counterparts to candidate gravitational wave events. Wide-field optical telescopes and Swift were enlisted to promptly capture images of the sky positions reconstructed for promising transient gravitational-wave signal candidates. An EM counterpart, if detected, could help confirm a signal candidate as a real event and would yield valuable information about the progenitor and the astrophysics of the event. LOOC-UP and Swift ToO are projects with the goal to locate and observe these optical phenomena. In this poster we describe the methodologies and operations of these projects during the joint LIGO-Virgo run.
LIGO Scientific Collaboration
Quitzow-James Ryan
Virgo Collaboration
No associations
LandOfFree
Followups to Gravitational-Wave Signal Candidates does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.
If you have personal experience with Followups to Gravitational-Wave Signal Candidates, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Followups to Gravitational-Wave Signal Candidates will most certainly appreciate the feedback.
Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-1205237