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2022MNRAS.516.4517K - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 516, 4517-4528 (2022/November-1)

GROWTH on S190426c II: GROWTH-India Telescope search for an optical counterpart with a custom image reduction and candidate vetting pipeline.

KUMAR H., BHALERAO V., ANUPAMA G.C., BARWAY S., COUGHLIN M.W., DE K., DESHMUKH K., DUTTA A., GOLDSTEIN D.A., JASSANI A., JOHARLE S., KARAMBELKER V., KHANDAGALE M., KUMAR B., SARAOGI D., SHARMA Y., SHENOY V., SINGER L., SINGH A. and WARATKAR G.

Abstract (from CDS):

S190426c/GW190426_152155 was the first probable neutron star-black hole merger candidate detected by the LIGO-Virgo Collaboration. We undertook a tiled search for optical counterparts of this event using the 0.7-m GROWTH-India Telescope. Over a period of two weeks, we obtained multiple observations over a 22.1 deg2 area, with a 17.5 per cent probability of containing the source location. Initial efforts included obtaining photometry of sources reported by various groups, and a visual search for sources in all galaxies contained in the region. Subsequently, we have developed an image subtraction and candidate vetting pipeline with $\sim 94{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ efficiency for transient detection. Processing the data with this pipeline, we find several transients, but none that are compatible with kilonova models. We present the details of our observations, the working of our pipeline, results from the search, and our interpretations of the non-detections that will work as a pathfinder during the O4 run of LVK.

Abstract Copyright: © 2022 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): methods: data analysis - techniques: image processing - black hole - neutron star mergers - neutron star mergers

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