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arxiv 2111.01945 v2 pith:3PBUEY5V submitted 2021-11-02 astro-ph.HE

Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Igor Andreoni , Raffaella Margutti , Om Sharan Salafia , B. Parazin , V. Ashley Villar , Michael W. Coughlin , Peter Yoachim , Kris Mortensen
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Daniel Brethauer S. J. Smartt Mansi M. Kasliwal Kate D. Alexander Shreya Anand E. Berger Maria Grazia Bernardini Federica B. Bianco Peter K. Blanchard Joshua S. Bloom Enzo Brocato Mattia Bulla Regis Cartier S. Bradley Cenko Ryan Chornock Christopher M. Copperwheat Alessandra Corsi Filippo D'Ammando Paolo D'Avanzo Laurence Elise Helene Datrier Ryan J. Foley Giancarlo Ghirlanda Ariel Goobar Jonathan Grindlay Aprajita Hajela Daniel E. Holz Viraj Karambelkar E. C. Kool Gavin P. Lamb Tanmoy Laskar Andrew Levan Kate Maguire Morgan May Andrea Melandri Dan Milisavljevic A. A. Miller Matt Nicholl Samaya M. Nissanke Antonella Palmese Silvia Piranomonte Armin Rest Ana Sagues-Carracedo Karelle Siellez Leo P. Singer Mathew Smith D. Steeghs Nial Tanvir
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The discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the era of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. Rapid identification of the optical/infrared kilonova enabled a precise localization of the source, which paved the way to deep multi-wavelength follow-up and its myriad of related science results. Fully exploiting this new territory of exploration requires the acquisition of electromagnetic data from samples of neutron star mergers and other gravitational wave sources. After GW170817, the frontier is now to map the diversity of kilonova properties and provide more stringent constraints on the Hubble constant, and enable new tests of fundamental physics. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) can play a key role in this field in the 2020s, when an improved network of gravitational-wave detectors is expected to reach a sensitivity that will enable the discovery of a high rate of merger events involving neutron stars (about tens per year) out to distances of several hundred Mpc. We design comprehensive target-of-opportunity observing strategies for follow-up of gravitational-wave triggers that will make the Rubin Observatory the premier instrument for discovery and early characterization of neutron star and other compact object mergers, and yet unknown classes of gravitational wave events.

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