Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

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We present possible observing scenarios for the Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA 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 estimate the 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 the most promising targets 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– 20 deg2 requires at least three detectors of sensitivity within a factor of ∼2 of each other and with a broad frequency bandwidth. When all detectors, including KAGRA and the third LIGO detector in India, reach design sensitivity, a significant fraction of gravitational-wave signals will be localized to a few square degrees by gravitational-wave observations alone.

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Authors/Creators:	Abbott, BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abernathy, MR Acernese, F Ackley, K Adams, C Adams, T Addesso, P Adhikari, RX Adya, VB Affeldt, C Agathos, M Agatsuma, K Aggarwal, N Aguiar, OD Aiello, L Ain, A Ajith, P Akutsu, T Allen, B Allocca, A Altin, PA Ananyeva, A Anderson, SB Anderson, WG Ando, M Appert, S Arai, K Araya, A Araya, MC Areeda, JS Arnaud, N Arun, KG Asada, H Ascenzi, S Ashton, G Aso, Y Ast, M Aston, SM Astone, P Atsuta, S Aufmuth, P Aulbert, C Avila-Alvarez, A Awai, K Babak, S Bacon, P Bader, MKM Baiotti, L Baker, PT Baldaccini, F Ballardin, G Ballmer, SW Barayoga, JC Barclay, SE Barish, BC Barker, D Barone, F Barr, B Barsotti, L Barsuglia, M Barta, D Bartlett, J Barton, MA Bartos, I Bassiri, R Basti, A Batch, JC Baune, C Bavigadda, V Bazzan, M Bécsy, B Beer, C Bejger, M Belahcene, I Belgin, M Bell, AS Berger, BK Bergmann, G Berry, CPL Bersanetti, D Bertolini, A Betzwieser, J Bhagwat, S Bhandare, R Bilenko, IA Billingsley, G Billman, CR Birch, J Birney, R 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Keywords:	Gravitational waves; Gravitational-wave detectors; Electromagnetic counterparts; Data analysis
Dates:	Accepted: 7 February 2018 Published (online): 26 April 2018 Published: 14 December 2018
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	01 May 2019 09:38
Last Modified:	01 May 2019 09:38
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Springer (part of Springer Nature)
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1007/s41114-018-0012-9
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:145507

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Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA

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