Follow-up stage
Counterpart Search
The race to find the electromagnetic counterpart of a gravitational-wave event — wide-field telescopes tiling the large localization region, imaging it repeatedly to catch the one new point of light that is the merger's afterglow among millions of unrelated sources.
Detectors, messengers & sources
Across multi-messenger astronomy
Knowledge connections
- Associated withLocalization
- Associated withVera C. Rubin Observatory
- Associated withRapid Response
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- LIGO Scientific CollaborationLIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration
Direct detections of gravitational waves from compact-object mergers.