TY - JOUR
T1 - The Gravitational Wave Treasure Map
T2 - A Tool to Coordinate, Visualize, and Assess the Electromagnetic Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Events
AU - Wyatt, Samuel D.
AU - Tohuvavohu, Aaron
AU - Arcavi, Iair
AU - Lundquist, Michael J.
AU - Howell, D. Andrew
AU - Sand, David J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/5/10
Y1 - 2020/5/10
N2 - We present the Gravitational Wave (GW) Treasure Map, a tool to coordinate, visualize, and assess the electromagnetic (EM) followup of GW events. With typical GW localization regions of hundreds to thousands of square degrees and dozens of active follow-up groups, the pursuit of EM counterparts is a challenging endeavor, but the scientific payoff for early discovery of any counterpart is clear. With this tool, we provide a website and an application programming interface (API) that allows users to easily see where other groups have searched and better inform their own follow-up search efforts. A strong community of Treasure Map users will increase the overall efficiency of EM counterpart searches and will play a fundamental role in the future of multimessenger astronomy.
AB - We present the Gravitational Wave (GW) Treasure Map, a tool to coordinate, visualize, and assess the electromagnetic (EM) followup of GW events. With typical GW localization regions of hundreds to thousands of square degrees and dozens of active follow-up groups, the pursuit of EM counterparts is a challenging endeavor, but the scientific payoff for early discovery of any counterpart is clear. With this tool, we provide a website and an application programming interface (API) that allows users to easily see where other groups have searched and better inform their own follow-up search efforts. A strong community of Treasure Map users will increase the overall efficiency of EM counterpart searches and will play a fundamental role in the future of multimessenger astronomy.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85085282131&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3847/1538-4357/ab855e
DO - 10.3847/1538-4357/ab855e
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AN - SCOPUS:85085282131
SN - 0004-637X
VL - 894
JO - Astrophysical Journal
JF - Astrophysical Journal
IS - 2
M1 - 127
ER -