NOT follow-up of gravitational wave sources from Advanced LIGO-VIRGO (PI Pian)Gravitational waves from cosmic explosions or astrophysical transients may soon be detected by the joint search of advanced LIGO and VIRGO interferometers. We would like to take spectra with ALFOSC of any optical counterpart of a gravitational radiation source, as localized with arc-second precision by any observatory world-wide or by imaging cameras on the NOT itself, to identify its nature and measure its distance, and follow-up imaging at several epochs (depending on flux level) in optical with ALFOSC, or StanCAM, or MOSCA. Favourite counterpart candidates are the coalescing binary systems of degenerate stars, although our follow-up will be unbiased with respect to source nature and origin.ObservationsThe PI will send the target and observing information when this ToO is triggered. |
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