The Gravitational Wave Treasure Map: A Tool to Coordinate, Visualize, and Assess the Electromagnetic Follow-Up of Gravitational Wave Events

Autor:	Wyatt, Samuel D., Tohuvavohu, Aaron, Arcavi, Iair, Lundquist, Michael J., Howell, D. Andrew, Sand, David J.
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.3847/1538-4357/ab855e
Popis:	We present the Gravitational Wave Treasure Map, a tool to coordinate, visualize, and assess the electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave (GW) events. With typical GW localization regions of hundreds to thousands of square degrees and dozens of active follow-up groups, the pursuit of electromagnetic (EM) counterparts is a challenging endeavor, but the scientific payoff for early discovery of any counterpart is clear. With this tool, we provide a website and API interface that allows users to easily see where other groups have searched and better inform their own follow-up search efforts. A strong community of Treasure Map users will increase the overall efficiency of EM counterpart searches and will play a fundamental role in the future of multi-messenger astronomy. Comment: 14 pages, 8 figures, Accepted to ApJ
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2001.00588 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv