The first six months of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run with GRANDMA
2019
We present the Global Rapid Advanced Network Devoted to the Multi-messenger Addicts (GRANDMA). The network consists of 21 telescopes with both photometric and spectroscopic facilities. They are connected together thanks to a dedicated infrastructure. The network aims at coordinating the observations of large sky position estimates of transient events to enhance their follow-up and reduce the delay between the initial detection and the optical confirmation. The GRANDMA program mainly focuses on follow-up of gravitational-wave alerts to find and characterise the electromagnetic counterpart during the third observational campaign of the Advanced
LIGOand Advanced Virgo detectors. But it allows for any follow-up of transient alerts involving neutrinos or
gamma-ray bursts, even with poor spatial localisation. We present the different facilities, tools, and methods we developed for this network, and show its efficiency using observations of
LIGO/Virgo S190425z, a binary neutron star merger candidate. We furthermore report on all GRANDMA follow-up observations performed during the first six months of the
LIGO-Virgo observational campaign, and we derive constraints on the
kilonovaproperties assuming that the events' locations were imaged by our telescopes.
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