The Gravitational Wave Treasure Map: A Tool to Coordinate, Visualize, and Assess the Electromagnetic Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Events

Samuel D. Wyatt; Aaron Tohuvavohu; Iair Arcavi; Michael J. Lundquist; D. Andrew Howell; David J. Sand

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab855e

The Gravitational Wave Treasure Map: A Tool to Coordinate, Visualize, and Assess the Electromagnetic Follow-up of Gravitational-wave Events

Samuel D. Wyatt, Aaron Tohuvavohu, Iair Arcavi, Michael J. Lundquist, D. Andrew Howell, David J. Sand

School of Physics and Astronomy

Tel Aviv University

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	127
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	894
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab855e
State	Published - 10 May 2020

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