Large-Scale Image Processing with the ROTSE Pipeline for Follow-Up of Gravitational Wave Events

Understand

Electromagnetic (EM) observations of gravitational-wave (GW) sources would bring unique insights into a source which are not available from either channel alone.

• However EM follow-up of GW events presents new challenges.
• GW events will have large sky error regions, on the order of 10-100 square degrees, which can be made up of many disjoint patches.
• When searching such large areas there is potential contamination by EM transients unrelated to the GW event.