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A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF DETECTABILITY AND CONTAMINATION IN DEEP RAPID OPTICAL SEARCHES FOR GRAVITATIONAL WAVE COUNTERPARTS

  • Authors: P. S. Cowperthwaite and E. Berger

2015 The Astrophysical Journal 814 25.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 14.

Rise time–color slice of our phase space when a pre-existing template is not available. We note that if the rise time is long (≳2 days), then there is sufficient evolution in the light curve that colors can be measured with reasonable accuracy and kilonovae can be separated from the contaminants as before. However, when the rise time is short (∼1 day), then the change in flux is small and the colors are not well constrained.

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