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<i>Swift</i>follow-up of gravitational wave triggers: results from the first aLIGO run and optimization for the future

<i>Swift</i>follow-up of gravitational wave triggers: results from the first aLIGO run and optimization for the future

During its first observing run, in late 2015, the advanced LIGO facility announced 3 gravitational wave (GW) triggers to electromagnetic follow-up partners. Two of these have since been confirmed as being of astrophysical origin: both are binary black hole mergers at ~500 Mpc; the other trigger was later found not …