Publications (8)
Serendipitous Discoveries of Kilonovae in the LSST Main Survey: Maximising Detections of Sub-Threshold Gravitational Wave Events
Christian N. Setzer, Rahul Biswas, Hiranya V. Peiris +3
We investigate the ability of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) to discover kilonovae (kNe) from binary neutron star (BNS) and neutron star-black hole (NSBH) mergers, focu…
Dimensionally Reduced Waveforms for Spin-Induced Quadrupole Searches
Horng Sheng Chia, Thomas D. P. Edwards, Richard N. George +5
We present highly accurate, dimensionally-reduced gravitational waveforms for binary inspirals whose components have large spin-induced quadrupole moments. The spin-induced quadrup…
Efficient Gravitational Wave Template Bank Generation with Differentiable Waveforms
Adam Coogan, Thomas D. P. Edwards, Horng Sheng Chia +6
The most sensitive search pipelines for gravitational waves from compact binary mergers use matched filters to extract signals from the noisy data stream coming from gravitational…
Optimizing the LSST Observing Strategy for Dark Energy Science: DESC Recommendations for the Wide-Fast-Deep Survey
Michelle Lochner, Daniel M. Scolnic, Humna Awan +33
Cosmology is one of the four science pillars of LSST, which promises to be transformative for our understanding of dark energy and dark matter. The LSST Dark Energy Science Collabo…
The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time-series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC): Data set
The PLAsTiCC team, Tarek Allam, Anita Bahmanyar +23
The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC) is an open data challenge to classify simulated astronomical time-series data in preparation for o…
Modelling Populations of Kilonovae
Christian N. Setzer, Hiranya V. Peiris, Oleg Korobkin +1
The 2017 detection of a kilonova coincident with gravitational-wave emission has identified neutron star mergers as the major source of the heaviest elements, and dramatically cons…