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NED Gravitational Wave Follow-up (GWF) Service

Permalinks

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

DOI

10.26132/NED3

Publisher

IPAC

Author(s)

NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED)

Title

NED Gravitational Wave Follow-up (GWF) Service

Description

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.

Data type

Service

Url

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

Version

Date of data collection

Year of publication

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