Time-domain astrophysics with the gravitational wave optical transient observer

沃里克领导着引力波光学瞬变观测站(GOTO)项目，这是英国首屈一指的广域天文观测项目，旨在发现引力波事件的电磁对应物。该项目使用了位于两个地点(拉帕尔马和澳大利亚)的广域望远镜自主阵列，可以定期巡逻天空并对感兴趣的事件做出反应。虽然它的主要重点是寻找可见光信号来响应引力波的探测，但这些项目提供了一系列广泛的时域和瞬变科学。它的设计特别适合搜索罕见和快速演变的事件。然后，感兴趣的物体可以被馈送到其他望远镜进行进一步的表征和后续研究。PHD的研究涵盖了一些仪器和控制系统工作、高数据率图像缩减、复杂的自动分类方法以及对各种来源的科学利用，如中子星合并、超新星、快速瞬变、高能事件的对应物等。这项工作属于一个更大的团队，其中包括其他联盟成员。

Warwick leads the Gravitational wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) project, which is the UK's premier wide-field sky-survey, aimed at discovering the electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events. The project employs autonomous arrays of wide-field telescopes situated at two locations (La Palma, and Australia), that can patrol the sky regularly and respond to events of interest. While its main focus is to hunt for visible light signatures in response to gravitational wave detections, the projects offers a broad array of time-domain and transient science. Its design is particularly well suited to search for rare and rapidly evolving events. Objects of interest can then be fed to other telescopes for further characterisation and follow-up. The Phd research covers some instrumentation and control system work, high data-rate image reductions, sophisticated automated classification methods and science exploitation of a variety of sources such as neutron star mergers, supernovae, fast transients, counterparts to high-energy events etc. The work is within a larger team that includes other consortium members.