Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2020
Abstract
We present themethods and results of the optical follow-up, conducted by the Transient Optical Robotic Observatory of the South Collaboration, of gravitational wave events detected during the Advanced LIGO–Virgo second observing run (2016 November–2017 August). Given the limited field of view (∼100 arcmin) of our observational instrumentation, we targeted galaxies within the area of high localization probability that were observable from our sites. We analysed the observations using difference imaging, followed by a random forest algorithm to discriminate between real and spurious transients. Our observations were conducted using telescopes at Estacion Astrofısica de Bosque Alegre, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, the Dr. Cristina V. Torres Memorial Astronomical Observatory, and an observing station in Salta, Argentina.
Recommended Citation
Artola, Rodolfo, Martin Beroiz, Juan Cabral, Richard Camuccio, Moises Castillo, Vahram Chavushyan, Carlos Colazo et al. "TOROS optical follow-up of the advanced LIGO–VIRGO O2 second observational campaign." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 493, no. 2 (2020): 2207-2214. http://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3634
Publication Title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
DOI
10.1093/mnras/stz3634
Comments
© 2020 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. Original published version available at https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3634