DES-gravitational waves: compilation of Pan-STARRS images*

The Dark Energy Survey (DES) is a collaborative effort to map out the southern sky in hopes of probing the origin of the accelerating universe as well as defining cosmological constants. The Dark Energy Camera (DECam) images the southern sky and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) images the northern sky. By supplementing the DECam data with data from Pan-STARRS, the DES collaboration hopes to identify the optical counterparts to gravitational wave events. The joint detection of gravitational waves and optical counterpart will be used as a new way to uncover the physics of our universe. In order to accomplish this, the sky coverage needs to be increased from the current DECam coverage. Future work would be making template images from the retrieved Pan-STARRS images, which will be integrated into the DES-GW pipeline. This pipeline will be used for the search and discovery of Laser Interferometer Gravitational Waves (LIGO) O3 data.