用LSST进行引力波事件的机会目标观测
高能天体物理现象
2018-12-12 v1 天体物理仪器与方法
摘要
双中子星并合GW170817的电磁对应体的发现开启了GW+EM多信使天文学的时代。利用这一突破需要增加样本以探索千新星行为的多样性，并对哈勃常数提供更强约束，以及检验基础物理。LSST在2020年代可在此领域发挥关键作用，届时引力波探测器网络预计将以每年约数十次的速率探测到涉及中子星的并合事件，距离可达数百Mpc。在此我们提出全面的机会目标（ToOs）策略，用于对引力波源进行后续观测，这将使LSST成为发现和中子星并合及其他引力波源早期表征的首选设备。
引用
@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}
}
备注
White paper for LSST cadence optimization- ToOs