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

Abbott, B. P. et al.

	Abstract
1	Introduction
2	Commissioning and Observing Phases
	2.1	Commissioning and observing roadmap
	2.2	Envisioned observing schedule
3	Searches for Gravitational-Wave Transients
	3.1	Detection and false alarm rates
	3.2	Sky localization
4	Observing Scenario
	4.1	2015 – 2016 run (O1): aLIGO 40 – 80 Mpc
	4.2	2016 – 2017 run (O2): aLIGO 80 – 120 Mpc, AdV 20 – 60 Mpc
	4.3	2017 – 2018 run (O3): aLIGO 120 – 170 Mpc, AdV 60 – 85 Mpc
	4.4	2019+ runs: aLIGO 200 Mpc, AdV 65 – 130 Mpc
	4.5	2022+ runs: aLIGO (including India) 200 Mpc, AdV 130 Mpc
5	Conclusions
	Acknowledgements
A	Changes Between Versions
	A.1	Updates to detector commissioning
	A.2	Updates to sky localization
	References
	LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration
	Footnotes
	Figures
	Tables