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The GRANDMA network in preparation for the fourth gravitational-wave observing run

Agayeva, S.
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Aivazyan, V
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Alishov, S.
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January 1, 2022
Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, And Systems Ix
Conference on Observatory Operations - Strategies, Processes, and Systems IX Part of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference

GRANDMA is a world-wide collaboration with the primary scientific goal of studying gravitational-wave sources, discovering their electromagnetic counterparts and characterizing their emission. GRANDMA involves astronomers, astrophysicists, gravitational-wave physicists, and theorists. GRANDMA is now a truly global network of telescopes, with (so far) 30 telescopes in both hemispheres. It incorporates a citizen science programme (Kilonova-Catcher) which constitutes an opportunity to spread the interest in time-domain astronomy. The telescope network is an heterogeneous set of already-existing observing facilities that operate coordinated as a single observatory. Within the network there are wide-field imagers that can observe large areas of the sky to search for optical counterparts, narrow-field instruments that do targeted searches within a predefined list of host-galaxy candidates, and larger telescopes that are devoted to characterization and follow-up of the identified counterparts. Here we present an overview of GRANDMA after the third observing run of the LIGO/VIRGO gravitational-wave observatories in 2019 - 2020 and its ongoing preparation for the forthcoming fourth observational campaign (O4). Additionally, we review the potential of GRANDMA for the discovery and follow-up of other types of astronomical transients.

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Type
conference paper
DOI
10.1117/12.2630240
Web of Science ID

WOS:000865467900041

Author(s)
Agayeva, S.
Aivazyan, V
Alishov, S.
Almualla, M.
Andrade, C.
Antier, S.
Bai, J-M
Baransky, A.
Basa, S.
Bendjoya, P.
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Date Issued

2022-01-01

Publisher

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING

Publisher place

Bellingham

Published in
Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, And Systems Ix
ISBN of the book

978-1-5106-5354-2

978-1-5106-5353-5

Series title/Series vol.

Proceedings of SPIE

Volume

12186

Start page

121861H

Subjects

Engineering, Aerospace

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Astronomy & Astrophysics

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Instruments & Instrumentation

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Optics

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Engineering

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stars: neutron

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gravitational waves

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electromagnetic counterparts

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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Conference on Observatory Operations - Strategies, Processes, and Systems IX Part of SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation Conference

Montreal, CANADA

Jul 17-22, 2022

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November 7, 2022
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/192053
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