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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

Figure 2: The planned sensitivity evolution and observing runs of the aLIGO and AdV detectors over the coming years. The colored bars show the observing runs, with the expected sensitivities given by the data in Figure 1. There is significant uncertainty in the start and end times of the observing runs, especially for those further in the future, and these could move forward or backwards by a few months relative to what is shown above. The plan is summarised in Section 2.2.