Kyoto Conference Dinner Speech: Follow-up in the age of surveys

TL;DR

This paper emphasizes the importance of preparing follow-up strategies for upcoming large surveys that will detect rare compact binary systems, proposing a standard photometer to enable homogeneous multi-band observations.

Contribution

It introduces the idea of developing a standard photometer to improve follow-up efficiency for future surveys targeting compact binary populations.

Findings

Highlighting the need for follow-up strategies in upcoming surveys

Proposal of a standard photometer for homogeneous multi-band follow-up

Emphasizing preparation for future survey data analysis

Abstract

Future big surveys are going to provide many targets of rare compact binary populations that will require photometric and spectroscopic follow-up to use them to answer questions on the formation and evolution of compact binaries, their space densities and the connection to other astrophysical phenomena such as Supernovae Type Ia and the populations of gravitational wave emitters. Now is the time to start preparing efficient follow-up strategies for upcoming static and synoptic surveys. The proposal is to develop a standard photometer that will facilitate a homogeneous multi-band follow-up strategy.