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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• De Lotto, Barbara
• Ansoldi, Stefano
• Antonelli, Angelo
• Berti, Alessio
• Carosi, Alessandro
• Longo, Francesco
• Stamerra, Antonio

Titel

MAGIC electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave alerts

Ist Teil von

• Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, 2016-09, Vol.12 (S324), p.287-290

Ort / Verlag

Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

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Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The year 2015 witnessed the first direct observations of a transient gravitational-wave (GW) signal from binary black hole mergers by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (aLIGO) Collaboration with the Virgo Collaboration. The MAGIC two 17m diameter Cherenkov telescopes system joined since 2014 the vast collaboration of electromagnetic facilities for follow-up of gravitational wave alerts. During the 2015 LIGO-Virgo science run we set up the procedure for GW alerts follow-up and took data following the last GW alert. MAGIC results on the data analysis and prospects for the forthcoming run are presented.