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dc.contributor.author
J.Abadieetal
dc.contributor.author
강궁원
dc.contributor.author
장행진
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2019-08-28T07:41:06Z
dc.date.available
2019-08-28T07:41:06Z
dc.date.issued
2012-03-29
dc.identifier.issn
0004-6361
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https://repository.kisti.re.kr/handle/10580/14012
dc.identifier.uri
http://www.ndsl.kr/ndsl/search/detail/article/articleSearchResultDetail.do?cn=NART63248897
dc.description.abstract
Aims.Atransientastrophysicaleventobservedinbothgravitationalwave(GW)andelectromagnetic(EM)channelswouldyieldrichscientificrewards.AfirstprograminitiatingEMfollow-upstopossibletransientGWeventshasbeendevelopedandexercisedbytheLIGOandVirgocommunityinassociationwithseveralpartners.Inthispaper,wedescribeandevaluatethemethodsusedtopromptlyidentifyandlocalizeGWeventcandidatesandtorequestimagesoftargetedskylocations.

Methods.Duringtwoobservingperiods(Dec.17,2009toJan.8,2010andSep.2toOct.20,2010),alow-latencyanalysispipelinewasusedtoidentifyGWeventcandidatesandtoreconstructmapsofpossibleskylocations.AcatalogofnearbygalaxiesandMilkyWayglobularclusterswasusedtoselectthemostpromisingskypositionstobeimaged,andthisdirectionalinformationwasdeliveredtoEMobservatorieswithtimelagsofaboutthirtyminutes.AMonteCarlosimulationhasbeenusedtoevaluatethelow-latencyGWpipeline’sabilitytoreconstructsourcepositionscorrectly.

Results.Forsignalsnearthedetectionthreshold,ourlow-latencyalgorithmsoftenlocalizedsimulatedGWburstsignalstotensofsquaredegrees,whileneutronstar/neutronstarinspiralsandneutronstar/blackholeinspiralswerelocalizedtoafewhundredsquaredegrees.Localizationprecisionimprovesformoderatelystrongersignals.Thecorrectskylocationofsignalswellabovethresholdandoriginatingfromnearbygalaxiesmaybeobservedwith~50%orbetterprobabilitywithafewpointingsofwide-fieldtelescopes.
dc.language
eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries
Astronomyandastrophysics
dc.title
Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts
dc.citation.startPage
124
dc.citation.volume
539
dc.subject.keyword
gravitationalwaves
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Electromagneticcounterparts
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Observation
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