The analysis of ROTSE images of potential counterparts to gravitational wave events

L. K. Nuttall; W. Zheng; C. Akerlof; Sheon Chua; Andrew Wade; David McClelland; Susan Scott; Ping Lam; Daniel Shaddock

doi:10.1088/1742-6596/363/1/012033

The analysis of ROTSE images of potential counterparts to gravitational wave events

L. K. Nuttall^*, W. Zheng, C. Akerlof, Sheon Chua, Andrew Wade, David McClelland, Susan Scott, Ping Lam, Daniel Shaddock

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During the most recent LIGO-GEO-Virgo science run a number of partner telescopes performed follow-up observations of gravitational wave (GW) candidates. One of these collaborators was the ROTSE project. Consisting of four optical telescopes, ROTSE responded to GW triggers and took over 700 follow-up images. Analysis of these images is currently under way using ROTSE's own image processing pipeline. We describe the analysis used to search for transients of astrophysical significance, and steps being taken to automate and optimise the analysis for rapid identification of electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to GW candidates.

Original language	English
Article number	012033
Journal	Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume	363
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/363/1/012033
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	9th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves, Amaldi 9 and the 2011 Numerical Relativity - Data Analysis Meeting, NRDA 2011 - Cardiff, United Kingdom Duration: 10 Jul 2011 → 15 Jul 2011

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The analysis of ROTSE images of potential counterparts to gravitational wave events

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