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

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Living reviews in …, 2020 - Springer
We present our current best estimate of the plausible observing scenarios for the Advanced
LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA gravitational-wave detectors over the next several years …

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

Kagra Collaboration… - Living Reviews in …, 2018 - research.monash.edu
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 …

GWTC-3: Compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the second part of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review X, 2023 - APS
The third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog (GWTC-3) describes signals detected with
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo up to the end of their third observing run. Updating the …

GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, F Acernese, K Ackley, C Adams… - Physical Review D, 2024 - APS
The second Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog, GWTC-2, reported on 39 compact binary
coalescences observed by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors between 1 …

GWTC-2: compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical Review X, 2021 - APS
We report on gravitational-wave discoveries from compact binary coalescences detected by
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo in the first half of the third observing run (O3a) between …

GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
On May 21, 2019 at 03: 02: 29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short
duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise …

GW190412: Observation of a binary-black-hole coalescence with asymmetric masses

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - Physical Review D, 2020 - APS
We report the observation of gravitational waves from a binary-black-hole coalescence
during the first two weeks of LIGO's and Virgo's third observing run. The signal was recorded …

GWTC-1: a gravitational-wave transient catalog of compact binary mergers observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first and second observing runs

BP Abbott, R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham… - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact
binaries with component masses above 1 M⊙ during the first and second observing runs of …

[HTML][HTML] Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

R Abbott, TD Abbott, S Abraham, F Acernese, K Ackley… - SoftwareX, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are monitoring the sky and collecting
gravitational-wave strain data with sufficient sensitivity to detect signals routinely. In this …

LIGO detector characterization in the second and third observing runs

D Davis, JS Areeda, BK Berger, R Bruntz… - … and Quantum Gravity, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The characterization of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the second and third observing runs
has increased the sensitivity of the instruments, allowing for a higher number of detectable …