Time-domain astrophysics with the gravitational wave optical transient observer

利用引力波光学瞬态观测器进行时域天体物理学

• 批准号: 2737089
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Warwick
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2737089
• 关键词: Time; domain; astrophysics; gravitational; wave

Warwick leads the Gravitational wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) project, which is the UK's premier wide-field sky-survey, aimed at discovering the electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events. The project employs autonomous arrays of wide-field telescopes situated at two locations (La Palma, and Australia), that can patrol the sky regularly and respond to events of interest. While its main focus is to hunt for visible light signatures in response to gravitational wave detections, the projects offers a broad array of time-domain and transient science. Its design is particularly well suited to search for rare and rapidly evolving events. Objects of interest can then be fed to other telescopes for further characterisation and follow-up. The Phd research covers some instrumentation and control system work, high data-rate image reductions, sophisticated automated classification methods and science exploitation of a variety of sources such as neutron star mergers, supernovae, fast transients, counterparts to high-energy events etc. The work is within a larger team that includes other consortium members.

沃里克领导了引力波光学瞬态观测器（GOTO）项目，这是英国首屈一指的广域天空勘测项目，旨在发现引力波事件的电磁对应物。该项目采用位于两个地点（拉帕尔马岛和澳大利亚）的自主宽视场望远镜阵列，可以定期巡逻天空并对感兴趣的事件做出响应。虽然其主要重点是寻找可见光信号以响应引力波检测，但这些项目提供了广泛的时域和瞬态科学。它的设计特别适合搜索罕见且快速发展的事件。然后可以将感兴趣的物体输入其他望远镜以进行进一步的表征和跟踪。博士研究涵盖一些仪器和控制系统工作、高数据速率图像缩减、复杂的自动分类方法以及各种来源的科学开发，例如中子星合并、超新星、快速瞬变、高能事件的对应物等。工作是在一个更大的团队中进行的，其中包括其他联盟成员。