LIGO Document G1001056-v6
- The LIGO and Virgo gravitational wave detectors have now completed joint data collection in their initial configurations. Â Phenomena searched for include the gravitational signatures of compact binary mergers, stellar core collapse, black hole creation, and other highly energetic astrophysical events. Â An important goal of this joint run was to search for EM counterparts to candidate gravitational wave events. Â Wide-field optical telescopes and Swift were enlisted to promptly capture images of the sky positions reconstructed for promising transient gravitational-wave signal candidates. Â An EM counterpart, if detected, could help confirm a signal candidate as a real event and would yield valuable information about the progenitor and the astrophysics of the event. Â LOOC-UP and Swift ToO are projects with the goal to locate and observe these optical phenomena. Â In this poster we describe the methodologies and operations of these projects during the joint LIGO-Virgo run.
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