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| author | Dyer, Martin J. Ackley, Kendall Jiménez-Ibarra, Felipe Lyman, Joseph Ulaczyk, Krzysztof Steeghs, Danny Galloway, Duncan K. Dhillon, Vik S. O'Brien, Paul Ramsay, Gavin Noysena, Kanthanakorn Kotak, Rubina Breton, Rene Nuttall, Laura Pallé, Enric Pollacco, Don Killestein, Tom Kumar, Amit O'Neill, David Kelsey, Lisa Godson, Ben Jarvis, Dan |
| author_facet | Dyer, Martin J. Ackley, Kendall Jiménez-Ibarra, Felipe Lyman, Joseph Ulaczyk, Krzysztof Steeghs, Danny Galloway, Duncan K. Dhillon, Vik S. O'Brien, Paul Ramsay, Gavin Noysena, Kanthanakorn Kotak, Rubina Breton, Rene Nuttall, Laura Pallé, Enric Pollacco, Don Killestein, Tom Kumar, Amit O'Neill, David Kelsey, Lisa Godson, Ben Jarvis, Dan |
| contents | The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a project dedicated to identifying optical counter-parts to gravitational-wave detections using a network of dedicated, wide-field telescopes. After almost a decade of design, construction, and commissioning work, the GOTO network is now fully operational with two antipodal sites: La Palma in the Canary Islands and Siding Spring in Australia. Both sites host two independent robotic mounts, each with a field-of-view of 44 square degrees formed by an array of eight 40 cm telescopes, resulting in an instantaneous 88 square degree field-of-view per site. All four telescopes operate as a single integrated network, with the ultimate aim of surveying the entire sky every 2-3 days and allowing near-24-hour response to transient events within a minute of their detection. In the modern era of transient astronomy, automated telescopes like GOTO form a vital link between multi-messenger discovery facilities and in-depth follow-up by larger telescopes. GOTO is already producing a wide range of scientific results, assisted by an efficient discovery pipeline and a successful citizen science project: Kilonova Seekers. |
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| spellingShingle | The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) Dyer, Martin J. Ackley, Kendall Jiménez-Ibarra, Felipe Lyman, Joseph Ulaczyk, Krzysztof Steeghs, Danny Galloway, Duncan K. Dhillon, Vik S. O'Brien, Paul Ramsay, Gavin Noysena, Kanthanakorn Kotak, Rubina Breton, Rene Nuttall, Laura Pallé, Enric Pollacco, Don Killestein, Tom Kumar, Amit O'Neill, David Kelsey, Lisa Godson, Ben Jarvis, Dan Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a project dedicated to identifying optical counter-parts to gravitational-wave detections using a network of dedicated, wide-field telescopes. After almost a decade of design, construction, and commissioning work, the GOTO network is now fully operational with two antipodal sites: La Palma in the Canary Islands and Siding Spring in Australia. Both sites host two independent robotic mounts, each with a field-of-view of 44 square degrees formed by an array of eight 40 cm telescopes, resulting in an instantaneous 88 square degree field-of-view per site. All four telescopes operate as a single integrated network, with the ultimate aim of surveying the entire sky every 2-3 days and allowing near-24-hour response to transient events within a minute of their detection. In the modern era of transient astronomy, automated telescopes like GOTO form a vital link between multi-messenger discovery facilities and in-depth follow-up by larger telescopes. GOTO is already producing a wide range of scientific results, assisted by an efficient discovery pipeline and a successful citizen science project: Kilonova Seekers. |
| title | The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17176 |