Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with LSST
Abstract
The discovery of the electromagnetic counterparts to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the era of GW+EM multi-messenger astronomy. Exploiting this breakthrough requires increasing samples to explore the diversity of kilonova behaviour and provide more stringent constraints on the Hubble constant, and tests of fundamental physics. LSST can play a key role in this field in the 2020s, when the gravitational wave detector network is expected to detect higher rates of merger events involving neutron stars (10s per year) out to distances of several hundred Mpc. Here we propose comprehensive target-of-opportunity (ToOs) strategies for follow-up of gravitational-wave sources that will make LSST the premiere machine for discovery and early characterization for neutron star mergers and other gravitational-wave sources.
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@article{arxiv.1812.04051,
title = {Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with LSST},
author = {R. Margutti and P. Cowperthwaite and Z. Doctor and K. Mortensen and C. P. Pankow and O. Salafia and V. A. Villar and K. Alexander and J. Annis and I. Andreoni and A. Baldeschi and B. Balmaverde and E. Berger and M. G. Bernardini and C. P. L. Berry and F. Bianco and P. K. Blanchard and E. Brocato and M. I. Carnerero and R. Cartier and S. B. Cenko and R. Chornock and L. Chomiuk and C. M. Copperwheat and M. W. Coughlin and D. L. Coppejans and A. Corsi and F. D'Ammando and L. Datrier and P. D'Avanzo and G. Dimitriadis and M. R. Drout and R. J. Foley and W. Fong and O. Fox and G. Ghirlanda and D. Goldstein and J. Grindlay and C. Guidorzi and Z. Haiman and M. Hendry and D. Holz and T. Hung and C. Inserra and D. O. Jones and V. Kalogera and C. D. Kilpatrick and G. Lamb and T. Laskar and A. Levan and E. Mason and K. Maguire and A. Melandri and D. Milisavljevic and A. Miller and G. Narayan and E. Nielsen and M. Nicholl and S. Nissanke and P. Nugent and Y. -C. Pan and D. Pasham and K. Paterson and S. Piranomonte and J. Racusin and A. Rest and C. Righi and D. Sand and R. Seaman and D. Scolnic and K. Siellez and L. Singer and P. Szkody and M. Smith and D. Steeghs and M. Sullivan and N. Tanvir and G. Terreran and V. Trimble and S. Valenti and with the support of the LSST Transient and Variable Stars Collaboration},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.04051},
year = {2018}
}
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White paper for LSST cadence optimization- ToOs