Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational-Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo.
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van der SchaafM V van der SluysJ V van HeijningenA A van VeggelM VardaroS VassM VasúthR VaulinA VecchioG VedovatoJ VeitchP J VeitchK VenkateswaraD VerkindtF VetranoA ViceréS VinciguerraD J VineJ-Y VinetS VitaleT VoH VoccaC VorvickW D VousdenS P VyatchaninA R WadeL E WadeM WadeM WalkerL WallaceS WalshG WangH WangM WangX WangY WangR L WardJ WarnerM WasB WeaverL-W WeiM WeinertA J WeinsteinR WeissT WelbornL WenP WeßelsT WestphalK WetteJ T WhelanD J WhiteB F WhitingR D WilliamsA R WilliamsonJ L WillisB WillkeM H WimmerW WinklerC C WipfH WittelG WoanJ WordenJ L WrightG WuJ YablonW YamH YamamotoC C YanceyM J YapH YuM YvertA ZadrożnyL ZangrandoM ZanolinJ-P ZendriM ZevinF ZhangL ZhangM ZhangY ZhangC ZhaoM ZhouZ ZhouX J ZhuM E ZuckerS E ZurawJ ZweizigPublished in: Living reviews in relativity (2016)
We present a possible observing scenario for the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo 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 determine the expected 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 considered the most promising 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 deg2 to 20 deg2 will require at least three detectors of sensitivity within a factor of ∼ 2 of each other and with a broad frequency bandwidth. Should the third LIGO detector be relocated to India as expected, a significant fraction of gravitational-wave signals will be localized to a few square degrees by gravitational-wave observations alone.