GOING THE DISTANCE: MAPPING HOST GALAXIES OF LIGO AND VIRGO SOURCES IN THREE DIMENSIONS USING LOCAL COSMOGRAPHY AND TARGETED FOLLOW-UP

The Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) discovered gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary black hole merger in 2015 September and may soon observe signals from neutron star mergers. There is considerable interest in searching for their faint and rapidly fading electr...

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Main Authors: Singer, Leo P., Chen, Hsin-Yu, Holz, Daniel E., Farr, Will M., Price, Larry R., Raymond, Vivien, Cenko, S. Bradley, Gehrels, Neil, Cannizzo, John, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Nissanke, Samaya, Coughlin, Michael, Farr, Ben, Urban, Alex L., Veitch, John, Graff, Philip, Berry, Christopher P. L., Mandel, Ilya, Vitale, Salvatore, Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan
Other Authors: LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110033
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-0767