引力波光学瞬变观测者（GOTO）：原型机性能与瞬变科学前景
天体物理仪器与方法
2022-01-19 v1 高能天体物理现象
摘要
引力波光学瞬变观测者（GOTO）是一组宽视场光学望远镜阵列，旨在利用来自下一代引力波探测器（LIGO、Virgo、KAGRA）的新发现，研究快速演化的瞬变源，并开发由中微子和甚高能伽马射线触发带来的多信使机会。除快速响应模式外，该阵列还将以数天 cadence 执行灵敏的全天瞬变巡天。该设施采用新颖的模块化设计，在单个基座上配备多个 40 厘米宽视场反射镜。2017 年 6 月，GOTO 合作组在加那利群岛拉帕尔马 Roque de los Muchachos 天文台（ORM）部署了初始项目原型，含 4 个望远镜单元。在此我们描述原型硬件的部署、调试与性能，并讨论这些发现对最终 GOTO 设计的影响。我们还对配备两个站点共 32 个望远镜单元的完整 GOTO 设施的科学前景给出初步评估。
引用
@article{arxiv.2110.05539,
title = {The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO): prototype performance and prospects for transient science},
author = {D. Steeghs and D. K. Galloway and K. Ackley and M. J. Dyer and J. Lyman and K. Ulaczyk and R. Cutter and Y. L. Mong and V. Dhillon and P. O'Brien and G. Ramsay and S. Poshyachinda and R. Kotak and L. K. Nuttall and E. Palle and R. P. Breton and D. Pollacco and E. Thrane and S. Aukkaravittayapun and S. Awiphan and U. Burhanudin and P. Chote and A. Chrimes and E. Daw and C. Duffy and R. Eyles-Ferris and B. Gompertz and T. Heikkila and P. Irawati and M. R. Kennedy and T. Killestein and H. Kuncarayakti and A. J. Levan and S. Littlefair and L. Makrygianni and T. Marsh and D. Mata-Sanchez and S. Mattila and J. Maund and J. McCormac and D. Mkrtichian and J. Mullaney and K. Noysena and M. Patel and E. Rol and U. Sawangwit and E. R. Stanway and R. Starling and P. Strom and S. Tooke and R. West and D. J. White and K. Wiersema},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2110.05539},
year = {2022}
}
备注
19 pages, 16 Figures, accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society