Strategies for the follow-up of gravitational wave transients with the Cherenkov Telescope Array
2018
The observation of the electromagnetic counterpart of gravitational-wave (GW) transient GW170817
demonstrated the potential in extracting astrophysical information from multimessenger discoveries.
The forthcoming deployment of the first telescopes of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observatory
will coincide with Advanced LIGO/Virgo’s next observing run, O3, enabling the monitoring
of gamma-ray emission at E > 20 GeV, and thus particle acceleration, from GW sources. CTA will
not be greatly limited by the precision of GW localization as it will be be capable of rapidly covering
the GW error region with sufficient sensitivity. We examine the current status of GW searches and
their follow-up effort, as well as the status of CTA, in order to identify some of the general strategies
that will enhance CTA’s contribution to multimessenger discoveries.
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