Follow-up stage
Rapid Response
The time-critical mobilisation of telescopes within minutes to hours of a gravitational-wave alert. A kilonova fades in days and the earliest light carries the most information, so automated systems and rapid human decisions decide whether the counterpart is caught at all.
Detectors, messengers & sources
Across multi-messenger astronomy
Knowledge connections
- Associated withLVK Public Alerts
- Associated withLVK Public Alerts
- Associated withCounterpart Search
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.