(OBSOLETE) LIGO-Virgo EM Follow-Up Tutorial

Document #:

LIGO-G1500442-v11

Document type:

G - Presentations (eg Graphics)

Abstract:

WARNING: This document is obsolete.

Please refer to the LIGO-Virgo Public Alerts User Guide, https://emfollow.docs.ligo.org/userguide/

This document explains how to receive, filter, and process gravitational-wave detection candidate alerts from Advanced LIGO and Virgo. We provide sample code in Python and document alternatives for users of other programming environments. You can download this document and run the code samples in IPython Notebook.

Files in Document:

• HTML document (ligo-virgo-emfollowup-tutorial.html, 378.9 kB)
• IPython Notebook (ligo-virgo-emfollowup-tutorial.ipynb, 73.2 kB)

Other Files:

• aladin-screenshot.png (264.5 kB)
• ds9-screenshot.png (65.2 kB)
• gracedb-screenshot-1.png (23.6 kB)
• gracedb-screenshot-2.png (44.4 kB)
• gracedb-screenshot-3.png (53.1 kB)
• gracedb-screenshot-4.png (58.3 kB)

Topics:

• Astrophysics / Multi-messenger
• Data analysis software

Author Groups:

• LVC

Keywords:

gcn fits voevent healpix client parse electromagnetic follow-up

Notes and Changes:

Added notice that this document is obsolete.

Publication Information:

Also viewable online here:
http://nbviewer.ipython.org/github/lpsinger/ligo-virgo-emfollowup-tutorial/blob/master/ligo-virgo-emfollowup-tutorial.ipynb

Under version control here:
https://github.com/lpsinger/ligo-virgo-emfollowup-tutorial