Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo.

Academic Article

Abstract

  • We 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.
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  • Abbott, BP
  • LIGO Scientific Collaboration
  • Virgo Collaboration
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  • Zevin, M
  • Zhang, F
  • Zhang, L
  • Zhang, M
  • Zhang, Y
  • Zhao, C
  • Zhou, M
  • Zhou, Z
  • Zhu, XJ
  • Zucker, ME
  • Zuraw, SE
  • Zweizig, J
  • Status

    Publication Date

  • 2016
  • Published In

    Keywords

  • Data analysis
  • Electromagnetic counterparts
  • Gravitational waves
  • Gravitational-wave detectors
  • Digital Object Identifier (doi)

    Start Page

  • 1
  • Volume

  • 19
  • Issue

  • 1