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Data-driven Expectations for Electromagnetic Counterpart Searches Based on LIGO/Virgo Public Alerts by Petrov, Polina, Singer, Leo P., Coughlin, Michael W., Kumar, Vishwesh, Almualla, Mouza, Anand, Shreya, Bulla, Mattia, Dietrich, Tim, Foucart, Francois, Guessoum, Nidhal

“…Searches for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational-wave signals have redoubled since the first detection in2017 of a binary neutron star merger with a…”
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GALAXY STRATEGY FOR LIGO-VIRGO GRAVITATIONAL WAVE COUNTERPART SEARCHES by Gehrels, Neil, Cannizzo, John K., Kanner, Jonah, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Nissanke, Samaya, Singer, Leo P.

“…ABSTRACT In this work we continue a line of inquiry begun in Kanner et al. which detailed a strategy for utilizing telescopes with narrow fields of view, such…”
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Updated Observing Scenarios and Multimessenger Implications for the International Gravitational-wave Networks O4 and O5 by Kiendrebeogo, R. Weizmann, Farah, Amanda M., Foley, Emily M., Gray, Abigail, Kunert, Nina, Puecher, Anna, Toivonen, Andrew, VandenBerg, R. Oliver, Anand, Shreya, Ahumada, Tomás, Karambelkar, Viraj, Coughlin, Michael W., Dietrich, Tim, Kam, S. Zacharie, Pang, Peter T. H., Singer, Leo P., Sravan, Niharika

“…Abstract An advanced LIGO and Virgo’s third observing run brought another binary neutron star merger (BNS) and the first neutron-star black hole mergers. While…”
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Swiftly Chasing Gravitational Waves across the Sky in Real Time by Tohuvavohu, Aaron, Kennea, Jamie A., Roberts, Christopher J., DeLaunay, James, Ronchini, Samuele, Cenko, S. Bradley, Ewing, Becca, Magee, Ryan, Messick, Cody, Sachdev, Surabhi, Singer, Leo P.

“…Abstract We introduce a new capability of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, dubbed “continuous commanding,” that achieves 10 s latency response time on orbit…”
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Prospects of Gravitational-wave Follow-up through a Wide-field Ultraviolet Satellite: A Dorado Case Study by Dorsman, Bas, Raaijmakers, Geert, Cenko, S. Bradley, Nissanke, Samaya, Singer, Leo P., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Piro, Anthony L., Bellm, Eric C., Hartmann, Dieter H., Hotokezaka, Kenta, Lukošiūtė, Kamilė

“…Abstract The detection of gravitational waves from the binary neuron star merger GW170817 and electromagnetic counterparts GRB170817A and AT2017gfo…”
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Dynamic Scheduling: Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events by Almualla, Mouza, Coughlin, Michael W, Anand, Shreya, Alqassimi, Khalid, Guessoum, Nidhal, Singer, Leo P

“…The simultaneous detection of electromagnetic and gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars (GW170817 and GRB170817A) has ushered in a new…”
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Foraging with MUSHROOMS: A Mixed-integer Linear Programming Scheduler for Multimessenger Target of Opportunity Searches with the Zwicky Transient Facility by Parazin, B., Coughlin, Michael W., Singer, Leo P., Gupta, Vaidehi, Anand, Shreya

“…Electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational-wave detections is very resource intensive, taking up hours of limited observation time on dozens of telescopes…”
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THE FIRST TWO YEARS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC FOLLOW-UP WITH ADVANCED LIGO AND VIRGO by Singer, Leo P, Price, Larry R, Farr, Ben, Urban, Alex L, Pankow, Chris, Vitale, Salvatore, Veitch, John, Farr, Will M, Hanna, Chad, Cannon, Kipp

“…We anticipate the first direct detections of gravitational waves (GWs) with Advanced LIGO and Virgo later this decade. Though this groundbreaking technical…”
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PARAMETER ESTIMATION FOR BINARY NEUTRON-STAR COALESCENCES WITH REALISTIC NOISE DURING THE ADVANCED LIGO ERA by Berry, Christopher P. L., Mandel, Ilya, Middleton, Hannah, Singer, Leo P., Urban, Alex L., Vecchio, Alberto, Vitale, Salvatore, Cannon, Kipp, Farr, Ben, Farr, Will M., Graff, Philip B., Hanna, Chad, Haster, Carl-Johan, Mohapatra, Satya, Pankow, Chris, Price, Larry R., Sidery, Trevor, Veitch, John

“…ABSTRACT Advanced ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) detectors begin operation imminently. Their intended goal is not only to make the first direct detection…”
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Fast-transient Searches in Real Time with ZTFReST: Identification of Three Optically Discovered Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows and New Constraints on the Kilonova Rate by Andreoni, Igor, Coughlin, Michael W., Kool, Erik C., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kumar, Harsh, Bhalerao, Varun, Carracedo, Ana Sagués, Ho, Anna Y. Q., Pang, Peter T. H., Saraogi, Divita, Sharma, Kritti, Shenoy, Vedant, Burns, Eric, Ahumada, Tomás, Anand, Shreya, Singer, Leo P., Perley, Daniel A., De, Kishalay, Fremling, U. C., Bellm, Eric C., Bulla, Mattia, Crellin-Quick, Arien, Dietrich, Tim, Drake, Andrew, Duev, Dmitry A., Goobar, Ariel, Graham, Matthew J., Kaplan, David L., Kulkarni, S. R., Laher, Russ R., Mahabal, Ashish A., Shupe, David L., Sollerman, Jesper, Walters, Richard, Yao, Yuhan

“…Abstract The most common way to discover extragalactic fast transients, which fade within a few nights in the optical, is via follow-up of gamma-ray burst and…”
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Machine Learning for the Zwicky Transient Facility by Mahabal, Ashish, Rebbapragada, Umaa, Walters, Richard, Masci, Frank J., Blagorodnova, Nadejda, Roestel, Jan van, Ye, Quan-Zhi, Biswas, Rahul, Burdge, Kevin, Chang, Chan-Kao, Duev, Dmitry A., Golkhou, V. Zach, Miller, Adam A., Nordin, Jakob, Ward, Charlotte, Adams, Scott, Bellm, Eric C., Branton, Doug, Bue, Brian, Cannella, Chris, Connolly, Andrew, Dekany, Richard, Feindt, Ulrich, Hung, Tiara, Fortson, Lucy, Frederick, Sara, Fremling, C., Gezari, Suvi, Graham, Matthew, Groom, Steven, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kulkarni, Shrinivas, Kupfer, Thomas, Lin, Hsing Wen, Lintott, Chris, Lunnan, Ragnhild, Parejko, John, Prince, Thomas A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Saunders, Nicholas, Sedaghat, Nima, Shupe, David L., Singer, Leo P., Soumagnac, Maayane T., Szkody, Paula, Tachibana, Yutaro, Tirumala, Kushal, Velzen, Sjoert van, Wright, Darryl

“…The Zwicky Transient Facility is a large optical survey in multiple filters producing hundreds of thousands of transient alerts per night. We describe here…”
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Optimizing serendipitous detections of kilonovae: cadence and filter selection by Almualla, Mouza, Anand, Shreya, Coughlin, Michael W., Dietrich, Tim, Guessoum, Nidhal, Carracedo, Ana Sagués, Ahumada, Tomás, Andreoni, Igor, Antier, Sarah, Bellm, Eric C, Bulla, Mattia, Singer, Leo P

“…The rise of multimessenger astronomy has brought with it the need to exploit all available data streams and learn more about the astrophysical objects that…”
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A Data Science Platform to Enable Time-domain Astronomy by Coughlin, Michael W., Bloom, Joshua S., Nir, Guy, Antier, Sarah, du Laz, Theophile Jegou, van der Walt, Stéfan, Crellin-Quick, Arien, Culino, Thomas, Duev, Dmitry A., Goldstein, Daniel A., Healy, Brian F., Karambelkar, Viraj, Lilleboe, Jada, Shin, Kyung Min, Singer, Leo P., Ahumada, Tomás, Anand, Shreya, Bellm, Eric C., Dekany, Richard, Graham, Matthew J., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Kostadinova, Ivona, Kiendrebeogo, R. Weizmann, Kulkarni, Shrinivas R., Jenkins, Sydney, LeBaron, Natalie, Mahabal, Ashish A., Neill, James D., Parazin, B., Peloton, Julien, Perley, Daniel A., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, van Santen, Jakob, Sollerman, Jesper, Stein, Robert, Turpin, D., Wold, Avery, Amat, Carla, Bonnefon, Adrien, Bonnefoy, Adrien, Flament, Manon, Kerkow, Frank, Kishore, Sulekha, Jani, Shloke, Mahanty, Stephen K., Liu, Céline, Llinares, Laura, Makarison, Jolyane, Olliéric, Alix, Perez, Inès, Pont, Lydie, Sharma, Vyom

“…Abstract SkyPortal is an open-source software package designed to discover interesting transients efficiently, manage follow-up, perform characterization, and…”
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Optimizing Cadences with Realistic Light-curve Filtering for Serendipitous Kilonova Discovery with Vera Rubin Observatory by Andreoni, Igor, Coughlin, Michael W., Almualla, Mouza, Bellm, Eric C., Bianco, Federica B., Bulla, Mattia, Cucchiara, Antonino, Dietrich, Tim, Goobar, Ariel, Kool, Erik C., Li, Xiaolong, Ragosta, Fabio, Sagués-Carracedo, Ana, Singer, Leo P.

“…Abstract Current and future optical and near-infrared wide-field surveys have the potential to find kilonovae, the optical and infrared counterparts to neutron…”
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Multiresolution HEALPix Maps for Multiwavelength and Multimessenger Astronomy by Martinez-Castellanos, I., Singer, Leo P., Burns, E., Tak, D., Joens, Alyson, Racusin, Judith L., Perkins, Jeremy S.

“…Abstract HEALPix—the Hierarchical Equal Area isoLatitude Pixelization—has become a standard in high-energy and gravitational wave astronomy. Originally…”
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ZTF20aajnksq (AT 2020blt): A Fast Optical Transient at z ≈ 2.9 with No Detected Gamma-Ray Burst Counterpart by Ho, Anna Y. Q., Perley, Daniel A., Beniamini, Paz, Cenko, S. Bradley, Kulkarni, S. R., Andreoni, Igor, Singer, Leo P., De, Kishalay, Kasliwal, Mansi M., Fremling, Christoffer, Bellm, Eric C., Dekany, Richard, Delacroix, Alexandre, Duev, Dmitry A., Goldstein, Daniel A., Golkhou, V. Zach, Goobar, Ariel, Graham, Matthew J., Hale, David, Kupfer, Thomas, Laher, Russ R., Masci, Frank J., Miller, Adam A., Neill, James D., Riddle, Reed, Rusholme, Ben, Shupe, David L., Smith, Roger, Sollerman, Jesper, van Roestel, Jan

“…Abstract We present ZTF20aajnksq (AT 2020blt), a fast-fading (Δ r  = 2.3 mag in Δ t  = 1.3 days) red ( g  −  r  ≈ 0.6 mag) and luminous ( M 1626 Å  = −25.9…”
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A Strategy for LSST to Unveil a Population of Kilonovae without Gravitational-wave Triggers by Andreoni, Igor, Anand, Shreya, Bianco, Federica B., Cenko, S. Bradley, Cowperthwaite, Philip S., Coughlin, Michael W., Drout, Maria, Golkhou, V. Zach, Kaplan, David L., Mooley, Kunal P., Pritchard, Tyler A., Singer, Leo P., Webb, Sara

“…We present a cadence optimization strategy to unveil a large population of kilonovae using optical imaging alone. These transients are generated during binary…”
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Localization of Binary Black Hole Mergers with Known Inclination by Corley, K. Rainer, Bartos, Imre, Singer, Leo P., Williamson, Andrew R., Haiman, Zolt´an, Kocsis, Bence, Nissanke, Samaya, M´arka, Zsuzsa, M´arka, Szabolcs

“…The localization of stellar-mass binary black hole mergers using gravitational waves is critical in understanding the properties of the binaries' host…”
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HEALPix Alchemy: Fast All-Sky Geometry and Image Arithmetic in a Relational Database for Multimessenger Astronomy Brokers by Singer, Leo P., Parazin, B., Coughlin, Michael W., Bloom, Joshua S., Crellin-Quick, Arien, Goldstein, Daniel A., van der Walt, Stéfan

“…Abstract Efficient searches for electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave, high-energy neutrino, and gamma-ray burst events demand rapid processing of…”
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Low-latency gravitational wave alert products and their performance at the time of the fourth LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run by Chaudhary, Sushant Sharma, Toivonen, Andrew, Waratkar, Gaurav, Mo, Geoffrey, Chatterjee, Deep, Antier, Sarah, Brockill, Patrick, Coughlin, Michael W, Essick, Reed, Ghosh, Shaon, Morisaki, Soichiro, Baral, Pratyusava, Baylor, Amanda, Adhikari, Naresh, Brady, Patrick, Cabourn Davies, Gareth, Dal Canton, Tito, Cavaglia, Marco, Creighton, Jolien, Choudhary, Sunil, Chu, Yu-Kuang, Clearwater, Patrick, Davis, Luke, Dent, Thomas, Drago, Marco, Ewing, Becca, Godwin, Patrick, Guo, Weichangfeng, Hanna, Chad, Huxford, Rachael, Harry, Ian, Katsavounidis, Erik, Kovalam, Manoj, Li, Alvin K Y, Magee, Ryan, Marx, Ethan, Meacher, Duncan, Messick, Cody, Morice-Atkinson, Xan, Pace, Alexander, De Pietri, Roberto, Piotrzkowski, Brandon, Roy, Soumen, Sachdev, Surabhi, Singer, Leo P, Singh, Divya, Szczepanczyk, Marek, Tang, Daniel, Trevor, Max, Tsukada, Leo, Villa-Ortega, Verónica, Wen, Linqing, Wysocki, Daniel

“…Multimessenger searches for binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers are currently one of the most exciting areas of astronomy. The…”
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