A Search for Optical Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera
A Search for Optical Emission from Binary Black Hole Merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera
Binary black hole (BBH) mergers found by the LIGO and Virgo detectors are of immense scientific interest to the astrophysics community, but are considered unlikely to be sources of electromagnetic emission. To test whether they have rapidly fading optical counterparts, we used the Dark Energy Camera to perform an $i$-band …