SUPPLEMENT: "gOING the DISTANCE: MAPPING HOST GALAXIES of LIGO and VIRGO SOURCES in THREE DIMENSIONS USING LOCAL COSMOGRAPHY and TARGETED FOLLOW-UP" (2016, ApJL, 829, L15)

Leo P. Singer; Hsin Yu Chen; Daniel E. Holz; Will M. Farr; Larry R. Price; Vivien Raymond; S. Bradley Cenko; Neil Gehrels; John Cannizzo; Mansi M. Kasliwal; Samaya Nissanke; Michael Coughlin; Ben Farr; Alex L. Urban; Salvatore Vitale; John Veitch; Philip Graff; Christopher P.L. Berry; Satya Mohapatra; Ilya Mandel

doi:10.3847/0067-0049/226/1/10

SUPPLEMENT: "gOING the DISTANCE: MAPPING HOST GALAXIES of LIGO and VIRGO SOURCES in THREE DIMENSIONS USING LOCAL COSMOGRAPHY and TARGETED FOLLOW-UP" (2016, ApJL, 829, L15)

Leo P. Singer, Hsin Yu Chen, Daniel E. Holz, Will M. Farr, Larry R. Price, Vivien Raymond, S. Bradley Cenko, Neil Gehrels, John Cannizzo, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Samaya Nissanke, Michael Coughlin, Ben Farr, Alex L. Urban, Salvatore Vitale, John Veitch, Philip Graff, Christopher P.L. Berry, Satya Mohapatra, Ilya Mandel

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This is a supplement to the Letter of Singer et al., in which we demonstrated a rapid algorithm for obtaining joint 3D estimates of sky location and luminosity distance from observations of binary neutron star mergers with Advanced LIGO and Virgo. We argued that combining the reconstructed volumes with positions and redshifts of possible host galaxies can provide large-aperture but small field of view instruments with a manageable list of targets to search for optical or infrared emission. In this Supplement, we document the new HEALPix-based file format for 3D localizations of gravitational-wave transients. We include Python sample code to show the reader how to perform simple manipulations of the 3D sky maps and extract ranked lists of likely host galaxies. Finally, we include mathematical details of the rapid volume reconstruction algorithm.

Original language	English
Article number	10
Number of pages	8
Journal	The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Volume	226
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/226/1/10
Publication status	Published - 21 Sept 2016
Externally published	Yes

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galaxies: distances and redshifts
gravitational waves
surveys

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Singer, L. P., Chen, H. Y., Holz, D. E., Farr, W. M., Price, L. R., Raymond, V., Cenko, S. B., Gehrels, N., Cannizzo, J., Kasliwal, M. M., Nissanke, S., Coughlin, M., Farr, B., Urban, A. L., Vitale, S., Veitch, J., Graff, P., Berry, C. P. L., Mohapatra, S., & Mandel, I. (2016). SUPPLEMENT: "gOING the DISTANCE: MAPPING HOST GALAXIES of LIGO and VIRGO SOURCES in THREE DIMENSIONS USING LOCAL COSMOGRAPHY and TARGETED FOLLOW-UP" (2016, ApJL, 829, L15). The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 226(1), Article 10. https://doi.org/10.3847/0067-0049/226/1/10

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