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Toros Optical Follow-Up Of The Advanced Ligo–Virgo O2 Second Observational Campaign, Rodolfo Artola, Martin Beroiz, Juan Cabral, R. Camuccio, Moises Castillo, Mario C. Diaz, Aldo Fonrouge, Alejandro F. Hinojosa, Andrea Hinojosa, Americo F. Hinojosa, Wendy Mendoza, Victor Perez, Tania Peñuela, Wahltyn Rattray, Ervin Vilchis, Adam Zadrozny
Toros Optical Follow-Up Of The Advanced Ligo–Virgo O2 Second Observational Campaign, Rodolfo Artola, Martin Beroiz, Juan Cabral, R. Camuccio, Moises Castillo, Mario C. Diaz, Aldo Fonrouge, Alejandro F. Hinojosa, Andrea Hinojosa, Americo F. Hinojosa, Wendy Mendoza, Victor Perez, Tania Peñuela, Wahltyn Rattray, Ervin Vilchis, Adam Zadrozny
Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications and Presentations
We present themethods and results of the optical follow-up, conducted by the Transient Optical Robotic Observatory of the South Collaboration, of gravitational wave events detected during the Advanced LIGO–Virgo second observing run (2016 November–2017 August). Given the limited field of view (∼100 arcmin) of our observational instrumentation, we targeted galaxies within the area of high localization probability that were observable from our sites. We analysed the observations using difference imaging, followed by a random forest algorithm to discriminate between real and spurious transients. Our observations were conducted using telescopes at Estacion Astrofısica de Bosque Alegre, Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, the …