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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

This is consistent with what was achieved with the initial detectors, where H1 and L1 had duty cycles of 78% and 67% in the S5 observing run [21 ]. Virgo had duty cycles of 81%, 80% and 73% in observing runs VSR1 – 3 respectively [1 ].