Observing strategy for electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational wave source

  • Paek, Gregory SungHak (CEOU, Astronomy program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University) ;
  • Im, Myungshin (CEOU, Astronomy program, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University)
  • Published : 2019.04.10

Abstract

Recent observation of the neutron star merger event, GW170817, through both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic wave (EM) observations opened a new way of exploring the universe, namely, multi-messenger astronomy (MMA). One of the keys to the success of MMA is a rapid identification of EM counterpart through optical/NIR observations. We will present the strategy for prioritization of GW source host galaxy candidates to be observed with narrow-field optical telescopes. Our method relies on recent simulation results regarding plausible properties of GW source host galaxies and the low latency localization map from LIGO/Virgo. We will show the test results for both NS merger and BH merger events using previous events and possible future events and describe observing strategy with our facilities for GW events during the ongoing LIGO/Virgo O3 run.

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