1. Grandma: a network to coordinate them all
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Agayeva, S., Alishov, S., Antier, S., Ayvazian, V. R., Bai, J. M., Baransky, A., Barynova, K., Basa, S., Beradze, S., Bertin, E., Berthier, J., Blažek, M., Boër, M., Burkhonov, O., Burrell, A., Cailleau, A., Chabert, B., Chen, J. C., Christensen, N., Coleiro, A., Corre, D., Coughlin, M. W., Coward, D., Crisp, H., Delattre, C., Dietrich, T., Ducoin, J. G., Duverne, P. A., Eymar, L., Fock-Hang, P., Gendre, B., Hello, P., Howell, E. J., Inasaridze, R. Ya., Ismailov, N., Kann, D. A., Kapanadze, G. V., Karpov, S., Klotz, A., Kochiashvili, N., Lachaud, C., Leroy, N., Van Su, A. Le, Li, W. X., Lin, W. L., Lognone, P., Marchal-Duval, G., Marron, R., Mašek, M., Mo, J., Moore, J. A., Morris, D., Natsvlishvili, R., Noysena, K., Orange, N. B., Perrigault, S., Peyrot, A., Prouza, M., Sadibekova, T., Samadov, D., Simon, A., Stachie, C., Teng, J. P., Thierry, P., Thöne, C. C., Tillayev, Y., Turpin, D., Postigo, A. de Ugarte, Vachier, F., Vardosanidze, M., Vasylenko, V., Vidadi, Z., Wang, C. J., Wang, X. F., Yan, S. Y., Zhang, J. C., Zhang, J. J., and Zhang, X. H.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
GRANDMA is an international project that coordinates telescope observations of transient sources with large localization uncertainties. Such sources include gravitational wave events, gamma-ray bursts and neutrino events. GRANDMA currently coordinates 25 telescopes (70 scientists), with the aim of optimizing the imaging strategy to maximize the probability of identifying an optical counterpart of a transient source. This paper describes the motivation for the project, organizational structure, methodology and initial results., Comment: 8 pages, to appear in Revista Lexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series
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- 2020
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