Journal
MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 511, Issue 2, Pages 2405-2422Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac013
Keywords
gravitational waves; methods: observational; techniques: photometric; telescopes; transients: neutron star mergers
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Funding
- Monash-Warwick Alliance
- University of Warwick
- Monash University
- University of Sheffield
- University of Leicester
- Armagh Observatory Planetarium
- National Astronomical Research Institute of Thailand (NARIT)
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC)
- University of Portsmouth
- University of Turku
- University of Manchester
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) [ST/T007184/1, ST/T003103/1, ST/T000406/1]
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Gravitational Wave Discovery (OzGrav) [CE170100004]
- UK Research and Innovation Fellowship [MR/T020784/1]
- Academy of Finland [324504, 328898]
- ERC under the European Union's Horizon 2020 re-search and innovation programme [715051]
- Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER) [PROID2020010104]
- Canary Islands government [PROID2020010104]
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-2007-2013) [725246]
- UK Science and Technology Facilities Council
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The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is an array of wide-field optical telescopes designed to study rapidly evolving transients and exploit multimessenger opportunities arising from the next generation of gravitational wave detectors. The facility features a modular design with multiple 40-cm wide-field reflectors on a single mount.
The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) is an array of wide-field optical telescopes, designed to exploit new discoveries from the next generation of gravitational wave detectors (LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA), study rapidly evolving transients, and exploit multimessenger opportunities arising from neutrino and very high energy gamma-ray triggers. In addition to a rapid response mode, the array will also perform a sensitive, all-sky transient survey with few day cadence. The facility features a novel, modular design with multiple 40-cm wide-field reflectors on a single mount. In 2017 June, the GOTO collaboration deployed the initial project prototype, with 4 telescope units, at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM), La Palma, Canary Islands. Here, we describe the deployment, commissioning, and performance of the prototype hardware, and discuss the impact of these findings on the final GOTO design. We also offer an initial assessment of the science prospects for the full GOTO facility that employs 32 telescope units across two sites.
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