The first six months of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run with GRANDMA. Issue 3 (11th November 2019)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- The first six months of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run with GRANDMA. Issue 3 (11th November 2019)
- Main Title:
- The first six months of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run with GRANDMA
- Authors:
- Antier, S
Agayeva, S
Aivazyan, V
Alishov, S
Arbouch, E
Baransky, A
Barynova, K
Bai, J M
Basa, S
Beradze, S
Bertin, E
Berthier, J
Blažek, M
Boër, M
Burkhonov, O
Burrell, A
Cailleau, A
Chabert, B
Chen, J C
Christensen, N
Coleiro, A
Cordier, B
Corre, D
Coughlin, M W
Coward, D
Crisp, H
Delattre, C
Dietrich, T
Ducoin, J-G
Duverne, P-A
Marchal-Duval, G
Gendre, B
Eymar, L
Fock-Hang, P
Han, X
Hello, P
Howell, E J
Inasaridze, R
Ismailov, N
Kann, D A
Kapanadze, G
Klotz, A
Kochiashvili, N
Lachaud, C
Leroy, N
Le Van Su, A
Lin, W L
Li, W X
Lognone, P
Marron, R
Mo, J
Moore, J
Natsvlishvili, R
Noysena, K
Perrigault, S
Peyrot, A
Samadov, D
Sadibekova, T
Simon, A
Stachie, C
Teng, J P
Thierry, P
Thöne, C C
Tillayev, Y
Turpin, D
de Ugarte Postigo, A
Vachier, F
Vardosanidze, M
Vasylenko, V
Vidadi, Z
Wang, X F
Wang, C J
Wei, J
Yan, S Y
Zhang, J C
Zhang, J J
Zhang, X H
… (more) - Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: We present the Global Rapid Advanced Network Devoted to the Multi-messenger Addicts (GRANDMA). The network consists of 21 telescopes with both photometric and spectroscopic facilities. They are connected together thanks to a dedicated infrastructure. The network aims at coordinating the observations of large sky position estimates of transient events to enhance their follow-up and reduce the delay between the initial detection and optical confirmation. The GRANDMA programme mainly focuses on follow-up of gravitational-wave alerts to find and characterize the electromagnetic counterpart during the third observational campaign of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. But it allows for follow-up of any transient alerts involving neutrinos or gamma-ray bursts, even those with poor spatial localization. We present the different facilities, tools, and methods we developed for this network and show its efficiency using observations of LIGO/Virgo S190425z, a binary neutron star merger candidate. We furthermore report on all GRANDMA follow-up observations performed during the first six months of the LIGO–Virgo observational campaign, and we derive constraints on the kilonova properties assuming that the events' locations were imaged by our telescopes.
- Is Part Of:
- Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Volume 492:Issue 3(2020)
- Journal:
- Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Issue:
- Volume 492:Issue 3(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 492, Issue 3 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 492
- Issue:
- 3
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0492-0003-0000
- Page Start:
- 3904
- Page End:
- 3927
- Publication Date:
- 2019-11-11
- Subjects:
- gravitational waves -- methods: observational -- stars: neutron
Astronomy -- Periodicals
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520.5 - Journal URLs:
- http://mnras.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2966 ↗
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/loi/mnr ↗
http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/stz3142 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0035-8711
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