English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Optical and infrared observations have thus far detected more celestialcataclysms than have been seen in gravity waves (GW). This argues that weshould search for gravity wave signatures that correspond to flux variabilityseen at optical wavelengths, at precisely known positions. There is an unknowntime delay between the optical and gravitational transient, but knowing thesource location precisely specifies the corresponding time delays across thegravitational antenna network as a function of the GW-to-optical arrival timedifference. Optical searches should detect virtually all supernovae that areplausible gravitational radiation sources. The transient optical signatureexpected from merging compact objects is not as well understood, but there aregood reasons to expect detectable transient optical/IR emission from most ofthese sources as well. The next generation of deep wide-field surveys (forexample PanSTARRS and LSST) will be sensitive to subtle optical variability,but we need to fill the ``blind spots'' that exist in the Galactic plane, andfor optically bright transient sources. In particular, a Galactic planevariability survey at 2 microns seems worthwhile. Science would benefit fromcloser coordination between the various optical survey projects and the gravitywave community.

Linking optical and infrared observations with gravitational wave sources through variability