Christopher Berry edited sky.tex  almost 9 years ago

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For electromagnetic (EM) observatories to be able to conduct follow-up of a GW detection, they need an accurate sky location. This must be provided promptly, while there is still a visible transient. The fully spinning PE is computationally expensive and so slow to compute. There are alternative methods that can provide sky localization more quickly. The most expedient is \textsc{bayestar}, this uses output from the detection pipeline to rapidly compute sky position \citep{Singer_2014}. \textsc{bayestar} can compute sky positions with a latency of $\sim30~\mathrm{s}$ \citep{Berry_2014}. Between the low-latency \textsc{bayestar} and the high-latency fully spinning PE, there is the medium-latency option of performing non-spinning PE with TaylorF2 waveforms. This requires $\sim10^5~\mathrm{s}$ of wall time to complete PE, with the exact time depending upon the degree of parallelization. Despite only using information form the detection triggers, rather than full waveforms, it has been shown that \textsc{bayestar} produces sky areas fully consistent with non-spinning PE results, provided that there was a trigger from all detectors in the network \citep{Singer_2014,Berry_2014}. Having now performed a full spinning analysis, we can compare the results of high-latency PE with the more expedient methods of inferring sky position.  In Figure~\ref{fig:sky} we show the cumulative distributions of recovered $50\%$ credible regions, $90\%$ credible regions and searched areas. All three quantities show good agreement across all PE techniques.\footnote{Performing techniques. %\footnote{Performing  a Kolmogorov--Smirnov test gives some number, which will be added later.} Including spin in the analysis does not change the average ability to locate the source on the sky.