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"Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo"
Abbott, B. P. et al.
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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
We do not intend to produce timing-only sky maps, but timing triangulation can be useful for order-of-magnitude
estimates of sky-localization accuracy averaged across the population of signals.