Rapid response gravitational wave follow-up with the PIRATE robotic telescope

Roberts, Dean and Kolb, Ulrich (2018). Rapid response gravitational wave follow-up with the PIRATE robotic telescope. In: European Week of Astronomy and Space Science: RAS National Astronomy Meeting, 3-6 Apr 2018, Liverpool, UK.

Abstract

This poster briefly outlines the research being undertaken at The Open University in the search for electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational wave candidates detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC). This includes the setup of the PIRATE facility, which is a robotic telescope located in Tenerife, Spain, and is used as both a research and teaching telescope. Additionally the poster describes the methods used to perform rapid follow-up to gravitational wave alerts from LIGO/Virgo, and how the images are processed to look for fading transients. Lastly there is a short summary of results from the last observing campaign, corresponding to the second LIGO observing run (O2).

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