LIGO Document T2400295-v1

Optical and Near-Infrared Searches for Gravitational Waves: Exploring Efficiencies

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LIGO-T2400295-v1
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Abstract:
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) is able to detect ripples in
spacetime caused by a binary black hole or binary neutron star mergers known as gravitational
waves (GW). We are focused on multi-messenger astronomy, or having multiple sources of the same
event to provide insight into what the object is, where it is from, etc. GW events can have an
electromagnetic (EM) counterpart in the form of kilonovae, which can be seen optically using a
telescope. In our project, we aimed to test the efficiency of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) at
detecting kilonovae. We populate a skymap with kilonovae, and test how many kilonovae ZTF can
detect compared to how many we simulated. Originally, we were using a software called simsurvey
to test these efficiencies. The goal of this project was to update our code from simsurvey, which is
no longer being maintained, to skysurvey. Additionally, we plan on testing effiecienes of events from
the LIGO O4 run.
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