First Gravitational-Wave Burst GW150914: Part II. MASTER Optical Follow-Up Observations
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2016-12-28 v1
Abstract
The Advanced LIGO observatory recently reported the first direct detection of gravitational waves predicted by Einstein (1916). We report on the first optical observations of the Gravitational Wave (GW) source GW150914 error region with the Global MASTER Robotic Net. We detected several optical transients, which proved to be unconnected with the GW event. Our result is consistent with the assumption that gravitational waves were produced by a binary black hole merger. The detection of the event confirmed the main prediction of the population synthesis performed with the "Scenario Machine" formulated in Lipunov1997b.
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@article{arxiv.1605.01607,
title = {First Gravitational-Wave Burst GW150914: Part II. MASTER Optical Follow-Up Observations},
author = {V. M. Lipunov and V. Kornilov and E. Gorbovskoy and N. Tiurina and P. Balanutsa and A. Kuznetsov and V. Vladimirov and D. Vlasenko and I. Gorbunov and V. Chazov and D. Kuvshinov and A. Gabovich and D. A. H. Buckley and S. B. Potter and A. Kniazev and S. Crawford and R. Rebolo Lopez and M. Serra Ricart and G. Israelian and N. Lodieu and O. A. Gress and N. M. Budnev and K. I. Ivanov and V. Poleschuk and S. Yazev and A. Tlatov and V. Senik and D. Dormidontov and A. Parkhomenko and V. Yurkov and Yu. Sergienko and R. Podesta and H. Levato and C. Lopez and C. Saffe and C. Mallamaci},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.01607},
year = {2016}
}
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11 pages, 7 figures, 4 tables