Gravitational-Wave Sky Localizations:
Online Calculator and Interactive Viewer of Credible Areas

Gravitational-Wave Sky Localizations:
Online Calculator and Interactive Viewer of Credible Areas

Version 1.0

The tool provides the credible areas of gravitational-wave sky localizations issued by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaborations (LVK). The resulting credible area is encoded with the data-structures Multi Order Coverage map (MOC). MOC is a Virtual Observatory standard approved by the IVOA (International Virtual Observatory Alliance) to manage sky coverage. Each MOC is visualized in the Aladin Lite with various background image surveyes. The whole list and the image surveys are accessible by clicking the icon manage layers located at the top left. The MOC maps are created and manipulated with the WebAssembly library MOCWasm. The tool accepts the two LVK sky map formats: the multiorder format (with .fits extention) and the unflattened skymap (with .fits.gz extention). Better performances are achieved with the multiorder format.












Info MOC plane.











Info MOC plane.











Info MOC plane.











Info MOC plane.