Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo

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dc.contributor.authorAbbott, B. P.
dc.contributor.authorDavies, G. S.
dc.contributor.authorLIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-05T12:40:25Z
dc.date.available2017-04-05T12:40:25Z
dc.date.issued2016-02
dc.description.abstractWe present a possible observing scenario for the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors over the next decade, with the intention of providing information to the astronomy community to facilitate planning for multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves. We determine the expected sensitivity of the network to transient gravitational-wave signals, and study the capability of the network to determine the sky location of the source. We report our findings for gravitational-wave transients, with particular focus on gravitational-wave signals from the inspiral of binary neutron-star systems, which are considered the most promising for multi-messenger astronomy. The ability to localize the sources of the detected signals depends on the geographical distribution of the detectors and their relative sensitivity, and 90% credible regions can be as large as thousands of square degrees when only two sensitive detectors are operational. Determining the sky position of a significant fraction of detected signals to areas of 5 deg2 to 20 deg2 will require at least three detectors of sensitivity within a factor of ∼ 2 of each other and with a broad frequency bandwidth. Should the third LIGO detector be relocated to India as expected, a significant fraction of gravitational-wave signals will be localized to a few square degrees by gravitational-wave observations alone.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationAbbott, BP., et al., (The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration). Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo. Living Reviews in Relativity, Vol. 19, Iss. 1, December 2016en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11717
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/lrr-2016-1
dc.publisherMax Planck Institute for Gravitational Physicsen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleProspects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with advanced LIGO and advanced Virgoen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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