Optical follow-up of GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera

In recent years, mergers of two black holes have become a staple of astrophysics, allowing a new look at the universe. With the completion of a three-detector network of interferometers, the binary black hole merger GW170814 was localized to a smaller region than any previous merger, allowing optical follow-up of much of the probable sky area. In this talk, I will describe electromagnetic follow-up of binary black hole merger GW170814 with the Dark Energy Camera by the DECam GW follow-up program and DES-GW. I will present the analysis strategies used to process the data and preliminary results from the analysis.