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Status of the continuous gravitational wave searches in the Advanced Detector Era

Periodic (almost monochromatic) gravitational waves emitted by rotating, asymmetric neutron stars are intriguing potential signals in the sensitivity band of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors. These signals are related to elastic…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-10-19 Michal Bejger

A Mock Data and Science Challenge for Detecting an Astrophysical Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The purpose of this mock data and science challenge is to prepare the data analysis and science interpretation for the second generation of gravitational-wave experiments Advanced LIGO-Virgo in the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-30 Duncan Meacher , Michael Coughlin , Sean Morris , Tania Regimbau , Nelson Christensen , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Vuk Mandic , Joseph D. Romano , Eric Thrane

Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors

The second-generation of gravitational-wave detectors are just starting operation, and have already yielding their first detections. Research is now concentrated on how to maximize the scientific potential of gravitational-wave astronomy.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , T. D. Abbott , M. R. Abernathy , K. Ackley , C. Adams , P. Addesso , R. X. Adhikari , V. B. Adya , C. Affeldt , N. Aggarwal , O. D. Aguiar , A. Ain , P. Ajith , B. Allen , P. A. Altin , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , K. Arai , M. C. Araya , C. C. Arceneaux , J. S. Areeda , K. G. Arun , G. Ashton , M. Ast , S. M. Aston , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , S. Babak , P. T. Baker , S. W. Ballmer , J. C. Barayoga , S. E. Barclay , B. C. Barish , D. Barker , B. Barr , L. Barsotti , J. Bartlett , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , J. C. Batch , C. Baune , A. S. Bell , B. K. Berger , G. Bergmann , C. P. L. Berry , J. Betzwieser , S. Bhagwat , R. Bhandare , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , R. Birney , S. Biscans , A. Bisht , C. Biwer , J. K. Blackburn , C. D. Blair , D. G. Blair , R. M. Blair , O. Bock , C. Bogan , A. Bohe , C. Bond , R. Bork , S. Bose , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , J. E. Brau , M. Brinkmann , P. Brockill , J. E. Broida , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , D. D. Brown , N. M. Brown , S. Brunett , C. C. Buchanan , A. Buikema , A. Buonanno , R. L. Byer , M. Cabero , L. Cadonati , C. Cahillane , J. Calder'on Bustillo , T. Callister , J. B. Camp , K. C. Cannon , J. Cao , C. D. Capano , S. Caride , S. Caudill , M. Cavagli`a , C. B. Cepeda , S. J. Chamberlin , M. Chan , S. Chao , P. Charlton , B. D. Cheeseboro , H. Y. Chen , Y. Chen , C. Cheng , H. S. Cho , M. Cho , J. H. Chow , N. Christensen , Q. Chu , S. Chung , G. Ciani , F. Clara , J. A. Clark , C. G. Collette , L. Cominsky , M. Constancio , D. Cook , T. R. Corbitt , N. Cornish , A. Corsi , C. A. Costa , M. W. Coughlin , S. B. Coughlin , S. T. Countryman , P. Couvares , E. E. Cowan , D. M. Coward , M. J. Cowart , D. C. Coyne , R. Coyne , K. Craig , J. D. E. Creighton , J. Cripe , S. G. Crowder , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , T. Dal Canton , S. L. Danilishin , K. Danzmann , N. S. Darman , A. Dasgupta , C. F. 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Moreno , S. R. Morriss , K. Mossavi , C. M. Mow-Lowry , G. Mueller , A. W. Muir , Arunava Mukherjee , D. Mukherjee , S. Mukherjee , N. Mukund , A. Mullavey , J. Munch , D. J. Murphy , P. G. Murray , A. Mytidis , R. K. Nayak , K. Nedkova , T. J. N. Nelson , A. Neunzert , G. Newton , T. T. Nguyen , A. B. Nielsen , A. Nitz , D. Nolting , M. E. N. Normandin , L. K. Nuttall , J. Oberling , E. Ochsner , J. O'Dell , E. Oelker , G. H. Ogin , J. J. Oh , S. H. Oh , F. Ohme , M. Oliver , P. Oppermann , Richard J. Oram , B. O'Reilly , R. O'Shaughnessy , D. J. Ottaway , H. Overmier , B. J. Owen , A. Pai , S. A. Pai , J. R. Palamos , O. Palashov , A. Pal-Singh , H. Pan , C. Pankow , F. Pannarale , B. C. Pant , M. A. Papa , H. R. Paris , W. Parker , D. Pascucci , Z. Patrick , B. L. Pearlstone , M. Pedraza , L. Pekowsky , A. Pele , S. Penn , A. Perreca , L. M. Perri , M. Phelps , V. Pierro , I. M. Pinto , M. Pitkin , M. Poe , A. Post , J. Powell , J. Prasad , J. Pratt , V. Predoi , T. Prestegard , L. 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Shahriar , M. Shaltev , B. Shapiro , P. Shawhan , A. Sheperd , D. H. Shoemaker , D. M. Shoemaker , K. Siellez , X. Siemens , D. Sigg , A. D. Silva , A. Singer , L. P. Singer , A. Singh , R. Singh , A. M. Sintes , B. J. J. Slagmolen , J. R. Smith , N. D. Smith , R. J. E. Smith , E. J. Son , B. Sorazu , T. Souradeep , A. K. Srivastava , A. Staley , M. Steinke , J. Steinlechner , S. Steinlechner , D. Steinmeyer , B. C. Stephens , R. Stone , K. A. Strain , N. A. Strauss , S. Strigin , R. Sturani , A. L. Stuver , T. Z. Summerscales , L. Sun , S. Sunil , P. J. Sutton , M. J. Szczepa'nczyk , D. Talukder , D. B. Tanner , M. T'apai , S. P. Tarabrin , A. Taracchini , R. Taylor , T. Theeg , M. P. Thirugnanasambandam , E. G. Thomas , M. Thomas , P. Thomas , K. A. Thorne , E. Thrane , V. Tiwari , K. V. Tokmakov , K. Toland , C. Tomlinson , Z. Tornasi , C. V. Torres , C. I. Torrie , D. T"oyr"a , G. Traylor , D. Trifir`o , M. Tse , D. Tuyenbayev , D. Ugolini , C. S. Unnikrishnan , A. L. Urban , S. A. Usman , H. Vahlbruch , G. Vajente , G. Valdes , D. C. Vander-Hyde , A. A. van Veggel , S. Vass , R. Vaulin , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , P. J. Veitch , K. Venkateswara , S. Vinciguerra , D. J. Vine , S. Vitale , T. Vo , C. Vorvick , D. V. Voss , W. D. Vousden , S. P. Vyatchanin , A. R. Wade , L. E. Wade , M. Wade , M. Walker , L. Wallace , S. Walsh , H. Wang , M. Wang , X. Wang , Y. Wang , R. L. Ward , J. Warner , B. Weaver , M. Weinert , A. J. Weinstein , R. Weiss , L. Wen , P. Wessels , T. Westphal , K. Wette , J. T. Whelan , B. F. Whiting , R. D. Williams , A. R. Williamson , J. L. Willis , B. Willke , M. H. Wimmer , W. Winkler , C. C. Wipf , H. Wittel , G. Woan , J. Woehler , J. Worden , J. L. Wright , D. S. Wu , G. Wu , J. Yablon , W. Yam , H. Yamamoto , C. C. Yancey , H. Yu , M. Zanolin , M. Zevin , L. Zhang , M. Zhang , Y. Zhang , C. Zhao , M. Zhou , Z. Zhou , X. J. Zhu , M. E. Zucker , S. E. Zuraw , J. Zweizig , J. Harms

First demonstration of early warning gravitational wave alerts

Gravitational-wave observations became commonplace in Advanced LIGO-Virgo's recently concluded third observing run. 56 non-retracted candidates were identified and publicly announced in near real time. Gravitational waves from binary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-14 Ryan Magee , Deep Chatterjee , Leo P. Singer , Surabhi Sachdev , Manoj Kovalam , Geoffrey Mo , Stuart Anderson , Patrick Brady , Patrick Brockill , Kipp Cannon , Tito Dal Canton , Qi Chu , Patrick Clearwater , Alex Codoreanu , Marco Drago , Patrick Godwin , Shaon Ghosh , Giuseppe Greco , Chad Hanna , Shasvath J. Kapadia , Erik Katsavounidis , Victor Oloworaran , Alexander E. Pace , Fiona Panther , Anwarul Patwary , Roberto De Pietri , Brandon Piotrzkowski , Tanner Prestegard , Luca Rei , Anala K. Sreekumar , Marek J. Szczepańczyk , Vinaya Valsan , Aaron Viets , Madeline Wade , Linqing Wen , John Zweizig

The needle in the hundred square degree haystack: The hunt for binary neutron star mergers with LIGO and Palomar Transient Factory

The Advanced LIGO and Virgo experiments are poised to detect gravitational waves (GWs) directly for the first time this decade. The ultimate prize will be joint observation of a compact binary merger in both gravitational and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-01-16 Leo P. Singer

Prospects for early localization of gravitational-wave signals from compact binary coalescences with advanced detectors

A leading candidate source of detectable gravitational waves is the inspiral and merger of pairs of stellar-mass compact objects. The advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo detectors will allow scientists to detect inspiral signals from more…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2012-03-06 Alessandro Manzotti , Alexander Dietz

Advanced technologies for future ground-based, laser-interferometric gravitational wave detectors

We present a review of modern optical techniques being used and developed for the field of gravitational wave detection. We describe the current state-of-the-art of gravitational waves detector technologies with regard to optical layouts,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-27 G. Hammond , S. Hild , M. Pitkin

GW150914: The Advanced LIGO Detectors in the Era of First Discoveries

Following a major upgrade, the two advanced detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) held their first observation run between September 2015 and January 2016. With a strain sensitivity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-04-06 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration , The Virgo Collaboration

Implications of the search for optical counterparts during the second part of the Advanced LIGO's and Advanced Virgo's third observing run: lessons learned for future follow-up observations

Joint multi-messenger observations with gravitational waves and electromagnetic data offer new insights into the astrophysical studies of compact objects. The third Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observing run began on April 1, 2019;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-15 Michael W. Coughlin , Tim Dietrich , Sarah Antier , Mouza Almualla , Shreya Anand , Mattia Bulla , Francois Foucart , Nidhal Guessoum , Kenta Hotokezaka , Vishwesh Kumar , Geert Raaijmakers , Samaya Nissanke

An optimised gravitational wave follow-up strategy with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

The detection of a neutron star merger by the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Advanced Virgo gravitational wave detectors and the subsequent detection of an electromagnetic counterpart has opened a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 D. Dobie , T. Murphy , D. L. Kaplan , S. Ghosh , K. W. Bannister , R. W. Hunstead

Applications of machine learning in gravitational wave research with current interferometric detectors

This article provides an overview of the current state of machine learning in gravitational-wave research with interferometric detectors. Such applications are often still in their early days, but have reached sufficient popularity to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-07-03 Elena Cuoco , Marco Cavaglià , Ik Siong Heng , David Keitel , Christopher Messenger

The US Program in Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Science: Contribution from the LIGO Laboratory

Recent gravitational-wave observations from the LIGO and Virgo observatories have brought a sense of great excitement to scientists and citizens the world over. Since September 2015,10 binary black hole coalescences and one binary neutron…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 David Reitze , Rich Abbott , Carl Adams , Rana Adhikari , Nancy Aggarwal , Shreya Anand , Alena Ananyeva , Stuart Anderson , Stephen Appert , Koji Arai , Melody Araya , Stuart Aston , Juan Barayoga , Barry Barish , David Barker , Lisa Barsotti , Jeffrey Bartlett , Joseph Betzwieser , GariLynn Billingsley , Sebastien Biscans , Sylvia Biscoveanu , Kent Blackburn , Carl Blair , Ryan Blair , Brian Bockelman , Rolf Bork , Alyssa Bramley , Aidan Brooks , Sharon Brunett , Aaron Buikema , Craig Cahillane , Thomas Callister , Tom Carruthers , Filiberto Clara , Paul Corban , Michael Coughlin , Peter Couvares , Matthew Cowart , Dennis Coyne , Nicholas Demos , Fred Donovan , Jenne Driggers , Sheila Dwyer , Anamaria Effler , Robert Eisenstein , Todd Etzel , Matthew Evans , Tom Evans , Jon Feicht , Alvaro Fernandez-Galiana , Peter Fritschel , Valery Frolov , Michael Fyffe , Bubba Gateley , Joe Giaime , Dwayne Giardina , Evan Goetz , Sarah Gossan , Slawomir Gras , Philippe Grassia , Corey Gray , Anchal Gupta , Eric Gustafson , Les Guthman , Evan Hall , Jonathan Hanks , Joe Hanson , Raine Hasskew , Carl-Johan Haster , Matthew Heintze , Edgar Hernandez , Kathy Holt , Yiwen Huang , Tien Huynh-Dinh , Max Isi , Jeff Jones , Brittany Kamai , Jonah Kanner , Marie Kasprzack , Erik Katsavounidis , William Katzman , Keita Kawabe , Peter King , Jeffrey Kissel , Veronica Kondrashov , William Korth , Dan Kozak , Rahul Kumar , Michael Landry , Benjamin Lane , Robert Lanza , Michael Laxen , Albert Lazzarini , Yannick Lecoeuche , Ken Libbrecht , Ka-Lok Lo , Lionel London , Marc Lormand , Myron MacInnis , Georgia Mansell , Aaron Markowitz , Ed Maros , Jay Marx , Ken Mason , Thomas Massinger , Fabrice Matichard , Nergis Mavalvala , Richard McCarthy , Scott McCormick , Lee McCuller , Jessica McIver , Gregory Mendell , Edmond Merilh , Syd Meshkov , Richard Mittleman , Dan Moraru , Gerardo Moreno , Adam Mullavey , Timothy Nelson , Kwan-Yeung Ng , Minkyun Noh , Brian O'Reilly , Jason Oberling , Richard Oram , Charles Osthelder , Harry Overmier , William Parker , Mike Pedraza , Arnaud Pele , Carlos Perez , Danielle Petterson , Marc Pirello , Fred Raab , Hugh Radkins , Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra , Jonathan Richardson , Norna Robertson , Jameson Rollins , Chandra Romel , Janeen Romie , Kyle Ryan , Travis Sadecki , Eduardo Sanchez , Luis Sanchez , Richard Savage , Dean Schaetzl , Danny Sellers , Thomas Shaffer , David Shoemaker , Daniel Sigg , Amber Strunk , Vivishek Sudhir , Ling Sun , Duo Tao , Robert Taylor , Michael Thomas , Patrick Thomas , Keith Thorne , Calum Torrie , Gary Traylor , Randy Trudeau , Maggie Tse , Gabriele Vajente , Steve Vass , Gautam Venugopalan , Salvatore Vitale , Cheryl Vorvick , Andrew Wade , Larry Wallace , Jim Warner , Betsy Weaver , Alan Weinstein , Rainer Weiss , Stan Whitcomb , Chris Whittle , Joshua Willis , Christopher Wipf , Sophia Xiao , Hiro Yamamoto , Hang Yu , Haocun Yu , Liyuan Zhang , Michael Zucker , John Zweizig

The upgrade of GEO 600

This article gives a short overview of the status of the British/German gravitational wave detector GEO 600 and the upgrades planned within 2010 and 2011

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 Harald Lueck

A new data analysis framework for the search of continuous gravitational wave signals

Continuous gravitational wave signals, like those expected by asymmetric spinning neutron stars, are among the most promising targets for LIGO and Virgo detectors. The development of fast and robust data analysis methods is crucial to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2018-11-13 O. J. Piccinni , S. Frasca , P. Astone , S. D'Antonio , G. Intini , P. Leaci , S. Mastrogiovanni , A. Miller , C. Palomba , A. Singhal

Listening to the Universe with Gravitational-Wave Astronomy

The LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) detectors have just completed their first science run, following many years of planning, research, and development. LIGO is a member of what will be a worldwide network of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-10-13 Scott A. Hughes

Implications of the binary coalescence events found in O1 and O2 for the stochastic background of gravitational events

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors have commenced observations. Gravitational waves from the merger of binary black hole systems and a binary neutron star system have been observed. A major goal for LIGO and Virgo is to detect…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-30 Nelson Christensen

Frequency-Dependent Squeezing for Advanced LIGO

The first detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 launched the era of gravitational wave astronomy. The quest for gravitational wave signals from objects that are fainter or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-05-13 L. McCuller , C. Whittle , D. Ganapathy , K. Komori , M. Tse , A. Fernandez-Galiana , L. Barsotti , P. Fritschel , M. MacInnis , F. Matichard , K. Mason , N. Mavalvala , R. Mittleman , Haocun Yu , M. E. Zucker , M. Evans

Fast localization of coalescing binaries with a heterogeneous network of advanced gravitational wave detectors

We present the expected performance regarding fast sky localization of coalescing binaries with a network of three gravitational wave detectors having heterogeneous sensitivities, such as the LIGO-Virgo network. A hierarchical approach can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-08 Y. Fujii , T. Adams , F. Marion , R. Flaminio

Automatic Mirror Alignment for VIRGO: First experimental demonstration of the Anderson technique on a large-scale interferometer

The French-Italian interferometric gravitational wave detector VIRGO is currently being commissioned. Its principal instrument is a Michelson laser interferometer with 3 km long optical cavities in the arms and a power-recycling mirror. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Freise

Virgo calibration and reconstruction of the gravitational wave strain during VSR1

Virgo is a kilometer-length interferometer for gravitational waves detection located near Pisa. Its first science run, VSR1, occured from May to October 2007. The aims of the calibration are to measure the detector sensitivity and to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-11-20 The Virgo collaboration , T. Accadia , F. Acernese , F. Antonucci , S. Aoudia , K. G. Arun , P. Astone , G. Ballardin , F. Barone , M. Barsuglia , Th. S. Bauer , M. G. Beker , A. Belletoile , S. Bigotta , S. Birindelli , M. Bitossi , M. A. Bizouard , M. Blom , C. Boccara , F. Bondu , L. Bonelli , R. Bonnand , L. Bosi , S. Braccini , C. Bradaschia , A. Brillet , V. Brisson , R. Budzynski , T. Bulik , H. J. Bulten , D. Buskulic , C. Buy , G. Cagnoli , E. Calloni , E. Campagna , B. Canuel , F. Carbognani , F. Cavalier , R. Cavalieri , G. Cella , E. Cesarini , E. Chassande-Mottin , A. Chincarini , F. Cleva , E. Coccia , C. N. Colacino , J. Colas , A. Colla , M. Colombini , A. Corsi , J. -P. Coulon , E. Cuoco , S. D'Antonio , A. Dari , V. Dattilo , M. Davier , R. Day , R. De Rosa , M. del Prete , L. Di Fiore , A. Di Lieto , M. Di Paolo Emilio , A. Di Virgilio , A. Dietz , M. Drago , V. Fafone , I. Ferrante , F. Fidecaro , I. Fiori , R. Flaminio , J. -D. Fournier , J. Franc , S. Frasca , F. Frasconi , A. Freise , M. Galimberti , L. Gammaitoni , F. Garufi , G. Gemme , E. Genin , A. Gennai , A. Giazotto , R. Gouaty , M. Granata , C. Greverie , G. M. Guidi , H. Heitmann , P. Hello , S. Hild , D. Huet , P. Jaranowski , I. Kowalska , A. Krolak , N. Leroy , N. Letendre , T. G. F. Li , M. Lorenzini , V. Loriette , G. Losurdo , J. M. Mackowski , E. Majorana , I. Maksimovic , N. Man , M. Mantovani , F. Marchesoni , F. Marion , J. Marque , F. Martelli , A. Masserot , C. Michel , L. Milano , Y. Minenkov , M. Mohan , J. Moreau , N. Morgado , A. Morgia , S. Mosca , V. Moscatelli , B. Mours , I. Neri , F. Nocera , G. Pagliaroli , L. Palladino , C. Palomba , F. Paoletti , S. Pardi , M. Parisi , A. Pasqualetti , R. Passaquieti , D. Passuello , G. Persichetti , M. Pichot , F. Piergiovanni , M. Pietka , L. Pinard , R. Poggiani , M. Prato , G. A. Prodi , M. Punturo , P. Puppo , O. Rabaste , D. S. Rabeling , P. Rapagnani , V. Re , T. Regimbau , F. Ricci , F. Robinet , A. Rocchi , L. Rolland , R. Romano , D. Rosinska , P. Ruggi , B. Sassolas , D. Sentenac , R. Sturani , B. Swinkels , A. Toncelli , M. Tonelli , O. Torre , E. Tournefier , F. Travasso , J. Trummer , G. Vajente , J. F. J. van den Brand , S. van der Putten , M. Vavoulidis , G. Vedovato , D. Verkindt , F. Vetrano , A. Vicere , J. -Y. Vinet , H. Vocca , M. Was , M. Yvert