The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO)

Martin J. Dyer; Danny Steeghs; Duncan K. Galloway; Vik S. Dhillon; Paul O'Brien; Gavin Ramsay; Kanthanakorn Noysena; Enric Pallé; Rubina Kotak; Rene Breton; Laura Nuttall; Don Pollacco; Krzysztof Ulaczyk; Joseph Lyman; Kendall D. Ackley

doi:10.1117/12.2561008

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO)

Martin J. Dyer, Danny Steeghs, Duncan K. Galloway, Vik S. Dhillon, Paul O'Brien, Gavin Ramsay, Kanthanakorn Noysena, Enric Pallé, Rubina Kotak, Rene Breton, Laura Nuttall, Don Pollacco, Krzysztof Ulaczyk, Joseph Lyman, Kendall D. Ackley

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Abstract

The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is a wide-field telescope project focused on detecting optical counterparts to gravitational-wave sources. GOTO uses arrays of 40 cm unit telescopes (UTs) on a shared robotic mount, which scales to provide large fields of view in a cost-effective manner. A complete GOTO mount uses 8 unit telescopes to give an overall field of view of 40 square degrees, and can reach a depth of 20th magnitude in three minutes. The GOTO-4 prototype was inaugurated with 4 unit telescopes in 2017 on La Palma, and was upgraded to a full 8-telescope array in 2020. A second 8-UT mount will be installed on La Palma in early 2021, and another GOTO node with two more mount systems is planned for a southern site in Australia. When complete, each mount will be networked to form a robotic, dual-hemisphere observatory, which will survey the entire visible sky every few nights and enable rapid follow-up detections of transient sources.

Original language	English
Number of pages	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561008
Publication status	Published - 2020
Event	SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020 - virtual, United States of America Duration: 14 Dec 2020 → 18 Dec 2020 https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/browse/SPIE-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instrumentation/2020

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Conference	SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020
Country/Territory	United States of America
Period	14/12/20 → 18/12/20
Other	11443 Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Optical, Infrared, and Millimeter Wave 11444 Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray 11445 Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes VIII 11446 Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VII 11447 Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy VIII 11448 Adaptive Optics Systems VII 11449 Observatory Operations: Strategies, Processes, and Systems VIII 11450 Modeling, Systems Engineering, and Project Management for Astronomy IX 11451 Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation IV 11452 Software and Cyberinfrastructure for Astronomy VI 11453 Millimeter, Submillimeter, and Far-Infrared Detectors and Instrumentation for Astronomy X 11454 X-Ray, Optical, and Infrared Detectors for Astronomy IX
Internet address	https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/browse/SPIE-Astronomical-Telescopes-Instrumentation/2020

Keywords

Gravitational waves
Multi-site observatories
Sky surveys
Telescopes
Transient follow-up

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Dyer, M. J., Steeghs, D., Galloway, D. K., Dhillon, V. S., O'Brien, P., Ramsay, G., Noysena, K., Pallé, E., Kotak, R., Breton, R., Nuttall, L., Pollacco, D., Ulaczyk, K., Lyman, J., & Ackley, K. D. (2020). The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO). Poster session presented at SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2020, United States of America. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2561008

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