NED Gravitational Wave Follow-up (GWF) Service

https://doi.org/10.26132/NED3
https://www.ipac.caltech.edu/doi/10.26132/NED3

10.26132/NED3

IPAC

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)

NED Gravitational Wave Follow-up (GWF) Service

The NED GWF service facilitates searches for electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) events. Within minutes after the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration issues an alert using the GCN - NASA's Time-Domain and Multimessenger Alert System (https://gcn.nasa.gov/), this NED service responds by cross-matching in 3D the event's HEALPix map with galaxies in the local Universe and the following results are provided: an all-sky image of the probability contours, the location of all galaxies in NED within the 90% probability volume, and the top 20 candidates.

Service

https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/uri/NED::GWF/