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Detecting and reconstructing gravitational waves from the next Galactic core-collapse supernova in the Advanced Detector Era

We performed a detailed analysis of the detectability of a wide range of gravitational waves derived from core-collapse supernova simulations using gravitational-wave detector noise scaled to the sensitivity of the upcoming fourth and fifth…

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Insights from GRBs for optical follow-up of gravitational wave counterparts

Identifying the electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave sources is vital to enabling the myriad of investigations possible with multimessenger astronomy. However, locating faint, fast-varying transients within large localisations…

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Data-driven approach for modeling the temporal and spectral evolution of kilonova systematic uncertainties

Kilonovae, possible electromagnetic counterparts to neutron star mergers, provide important information about high-energy transient phenomena and, in principle, also allow us to obtain information about the source properties responsible for…

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LIGO-Virgo detector characterization and data quality (DetChar): from the O3 performance to the O4 preparation

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Dynamic Scheduling: Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events

The simultaneous detection of electromagnetic and gravitational waves from the coalescence of two neutron stars (GW170817 and GRB170817A) has ushered in a new era of "multi-messenger" astronomy, with electromagnetic detections spanning from…

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Multimessenger astronomy with a kHz-band gravitational-wave observatory

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Realistic observing scenarios for the next decade of early warning detection of binary neutron stars

We describe realistic observing scenarios for early warning detection of binary neutron star mergers with the current generation of ground-based gravitational-wave detectors as these approach design sensitivity. Using Fisher analysis, we…

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Improving the background of gravitational-wave searches for core collapse supernovae: A machine learning approach

Based on the prior O1-O2 observing runs, about 30% of the data collected by Advanced LIGO and Virgo in the next observing runs are expected to be single-interferometer data, i.e., they will be collected at times when only one detector in…

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