Course
The
field of gravitational-wave physics will enter soon a new era with the
advent of a new generation of detectors expected to start operation in
2015. Thanks to a ten-fold increase in sensitivity with respect to the
previous generation, the advanced detectors advanced LIGO and advanced
Virgo will probably make the first direct detection of gravitational
waves.
Most likely sources are very energetic astrophysical events like core
collapse supernovae or mergers of neutron-star and/or black hole
binaries. It is probable that those astrophysical events are not only
visible in the gravitational-wave spectrum but also in the
electromagnetic spectrum. The observation of an electromagnetic
counterpart (in the band ranging from the radio waves to the gamma
rays) is likely to be a key ingredient for confirming the cosmic nature
of the first detected gravitational-wave event.
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Chapters
- Astrophysical motivations
- Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave transients (Gamma-ray burst afterglow, kilonova, etc)
- Production of alerts from gravitational-wave observations
- Event selection
- Source direction reconstruction
- Telescope pointing strategy
- Optical transient searches in follow-up images
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