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Coincident Searches between Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos with the Antares and LIGO/Virgo Detectors

A multi-messenger approach with gravitational-wave transients and high-energy neutrinos is expected to open new perspectives in the study of the most violent astrophysical processes in the Universe. In particular, gamma-ray bursts are of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 B. Bouhou

Electromagnetic transients as triggers in searches for gravitational waves from compact binary mergers

The detection of an electromagnetic transient which may originate from a binary neutron star merger can increase the probability that a given segment of data from the LIGO-Virgo ground-based gravitational-wave detector network contains a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-06-27 Luke Zoltan Kelley , Ilya Mandel , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a network of three detectors built to detect local perturbations in the space-time metric from astrophysical sources. These detectors, two in Hanford, WA and one in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-12-09 LIGO Scientific Collaboration , J. Abadie , B. P. Abbott , R. Abbott , M , Abernathy , C. Adams , R. Adhikari , P. Ajith , B. Allen , G. Allen , E. Amador Ceron , R. S. Amin , S. B. Anderson , W. G. Anderson , M. A. Arain , M. Araya , M. Aronsson , Y. Aso , S. Aston , D. E. Atkinson , P. Aufmuth , C. Aulbert , S. Babak , P. Baker , S. Ballmer , D. Barker , S. Barnum , B. Barr , P. Barriga , L. Barsotti , M. A. Barton , I. Bartos , R. Bassiri , M. Bastarrika , J. Bauchrowitz , B. Behnke , M. Benacquista , A. Bertolini , J. Betzwieser , N. Beveridge , P. T. Beyersdorf , I. A. Bilenko , G. Billingsley , J. Birch , R. Biswas , E. Black , J. K. Blackburn , L. Blackburn , D. Blair , B. Bland , O. Bock , T. P. Bodiya , R. Bondarescu , R. Bork , M. Born , S. Bose , M. Boyle , P. R. Brady , V. B. Braginsky , J. E. Brau , J. Breyer , D. O. Bridges , M. Brinkmann , M. Britzger , A. F. Brooks , D. A. Brown , A. Buonanno , J. Burguet--Castell , O. Burmeister , R. L. Byer , L. Cadonati , J. B. Camp , P. Campsie , J. Cannizzo , K. C. Cannon , J. Cao , C. Capano , S. Caride , S. Caudill , M. Cavaglià , C. Cepeda , T. Chalermsongsak , E. Chalkley , P. Charlton , S. Chelkowski , Y. Chen , N. Christensen , S. S. Y. Chua , C. T. Y. Chung , D. Clark , J. Clark , J. H. Clayton , R. Conte , D. Cook , T. R. Corbitt , N. Cornish , C. A. Costa , D. Coward , D. C. Coyne , J. D. E. Creighton , T. D. Creighton , A. M. Cruise , R. M. Culter , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , K. Dahl , S. L. Danilishin , R. Dannenberg , K. Danzmann , K. Das , B. Daudert , G. Davies , A. Davis , E. J. Daw , T. Dayanga , D. DeBra , J. Degallaix , V. Dergachev , R. DeRosa , R. DeSalvo , P. Devanka , S. Dhurandhar , I. Di Palma , M. Díaz , F. Donovan , K. L. Dooley , E. E. Doomes , S. Dorsher , E. S. D. Douglas , R. W. P. Drever , J. C. Driggers , J. Dueck , J. -C. Dumas , T. Eberle , M. Edgar , M. Edwards , A. Effler , P. Ehrens , R. Engel , T. Etzel , M. Evans , T. Evans , S. Fairhurst , Y. Fan , B. F. Farr , D. Fazi , H. Fehrmann , D. Feldbaum , L. S. Finn , M. Flanigan , K. Flasch , S. Foley , C. Forrest , E. Forsi , N. Fotopoulos , M. Frede , M. Frei , Z. Frei , A. Freise , R. Frey , T. T. Fricke , D. Friedrich , P. Fritschel , V. V. Frolov , P. Fulda , M. Fyffe , J. A. Garofoli , I. Gholami , S. Ghosh , J. A. Giaime , S. Giampanis , K. D. Giardina , C. Gill , E. Goetz , L. M. Goggin , G. González , M. L. Gorodetsky , S. Goßler , C. Graef , A. Grant , S. Gras , C. Gray , R. J. S. Greenhalgh , A. M. Gretarsson , R. Grosso , H. Grote , S. Grunewald , E. K. Gustafson , R. Gustafson , B. Hage , P. Hall , J. M. Hallam , D. Hammer , G. Hammond , J. Hanks , C. Hanna , J. Hanson , J. Harms , G. M. Harry , I. W. Harry , E. D. Harstad , K. Haughian , K. Hayama , J. Heefner , I. S. Heng , A. Heptonstall , M. Hewitson , S. Hild , E. Hirose , D. Hoak , K. A. Hodge , K. Holt , D. J. Hosken , J. Hough , E. Howell , D. Hoyland , B. Hughey , S. Husa , S. H. Huttner , T. Huynh--Dinh , D. R. Ingram , R. Inta , T. Isogai , A. Ivanov , W. W. Johnson , D. I. Jones , G. Jones , R. Jones , L. Ju , P. Kalmus , V. Kalogera , S. Kandhasamy , J. Kanner , E. Katsavounidis , K. Kawabe , S. Kawamura , F. Kawazoe , W. Kells , D. G. Keppel , A. Khalaidovski , F. Y. Khalili , E. A. Khazanov , H. Kim , P. J. King , D. L. Kinzel , J. S. Kissel , S. Klimenko , V. Kondrashov , R. Kopparapu , S. Koranda , D. Kozak , T. Krause , V. Kringel , S. Krishnamurthy , B. Krishnan , G. Kuehn , J. Kullman , R. Kumar , P. Kwee , M. Landry , M. Lang , B. Lantz , N. Lastzka , A. Lazzarini , P. Leaci , J. Leong , I. Leonor , J. Li , H. Lin , P. E. Lindquist , N. A. Lockerbie , D. Lodhia , M. Lormand , P. Lu , J. Luan , M. Lubinski , A. Lucianetti , H. Lück , A. Lundgren , B. Machenschalk , M. MacInnis , M. Mageswaran , K. Mailand , C. Mak , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , S. Márka , Z. Márka , E. Maros , I. W. Martin , R. M. Martin , J. N. Marx , K. Mason , F. Matichard , L. Matone , R. A. Matzner , N. Mavalvala , R. McCarthy , D. E. McClelland , S. C. McGuire , G. McIntyre , G. McIvor , D. J. A. McKechan , G. Meadors , M. Mehmet , T. Meier , A. Melatos , A. C. Melissinos , G. Mendell , D. F. Menéndez , R. A. Mercer , L. Merill , S. Meshkov , C. Messenger , M. S. Meyer , H. Miao , J. Miller , Y. Mino , S. Mitra , V. P. Mitrofanov , G. Mitselmakher , R. Mittleman , B. Moe , S. D. Mohanty , S. R. P. Mohapatra , D. Moraru , G. Moreno , T. Morioka , K. Mors , K. Mossavi , C. MowLowry , G. Mueller , S. Mukherjee , A. Mullavey , H. Müller-Ebhardt , J. Munch , P. G. Murray , T. Nash , R. Nawrodt , J. Nelson , G. Newton , A. Nishizawa , D. Nolting , E. Ochsner , J. O'Dell , G. H. Ogin , R. G. Oldenburg , B. O'Reilly , R. O'Shaughnessy , C. Osthelder , D. J. Ottaway , R. S. Ottens , H. Overmier , B. J. Owen , A. Page , Y. Pan , C. Pankow , M. A. Papa , M. Pareja , P. Patel , M. Pedraza , L. Pekowsky , S. Penn , C. Peralta , A. Perreca , M. Pickenpack , I. M. Pinto , M. Pitkin , H. J. Pletsch , M. V. Plissi , F. Postiglione , V. Predoi , L. R. Price , M. Prijatelj , M. Principe , R. Prix , L. Prokhorov , O. Puncken , V. Quetschke , F. J. Raab , T. Radke , H. Radkins , P. Raffai , M. Rakhmanov , B. Rankins , V. Raymond , C. M. Reed , T. Reed , S. Reid , D. H. Reitze , R. Riesen , K. Riles , P. Roberts , N. A. Robertson , C. Robinson , E. L. Robinson , S. Roddy , C. Röver , J. Rollins , J. D. Romano , J. H. Romie , S. Rowan , A. Rüdiger , K. Ryan , S. Sakata , M. Sakosky , F. Salemi , L. Sammut , L. Sancho de la Jordana , V. Sandberg , V. Sannibale , L. Santamaría , G. Santostasi , S. Saraf , B. S. Sathyaprakash , S. Sato , M. Satterthwaite , P. R. Saulson , R. Savage , R. Schilling , R. Schnabel , R. Schofield , B. Schulz , B. F. Schutz , P. Schwinberg , J. Scott , S. M. Scott , A. C. Searle , F. Seifert , D. Sellers , A. S. Sengupta , A. Sergeev , D. Shaddock , B. Shapiro , P. Shawhan , D. H. Shoemaker , A. Sibley , X. Siemens , D. Sigg , A. Singer , A. M. Sintes , G. Skelton , B. J. J. Slagmolen , J. Slutsky , J. R. Smith , M. R. Smith , N. D. Smith , K. Somiya , B. Sorazu , F. C. Speirits , A. J. Stein , L. C. Stein , S. Steinlechner , S. Steplewski , A. Stochino , R. Stone , K. A. Strain , S. Strigin , A. Stroeer , A. L. Stuver , T. Z. Summerscales , M. Sung , S. Susmithan , P. J. Sutton , D. Talukder , D. B. Tanner , S. P. Tarabrin , J. R. Taylor , R. Taylor , P. Thomas , K. A. Thorne , K. S. Thorne , E. Thrane , A. Thüring , C. Titsler , K. V. Tokmakov , C. Torres , C. I. Torrie , G. Traylor , M. Trias , K. Tseng , D. Ugolini , K. Urbanek , H. Vahlbruch , B. Vaishnav , M. Vallisneri , C. Van Den Broeck , M. V. van der Sluys , A. A. van Veggel , S. Vass , R. Vaulin , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , P. J. Veitch , C. Veltkamp , A. Villar , C. Vorvick , S. P. Vyachanin , S. J. Waldman , L. Wallace , A. Wanner , R. L. Ward , P. Wei , M. Weinert , A. J. Weinstein , R. Weiss , L. Wen , S. Wen , P. Wessels , M. West , T. Westphal , K. Wette , J. T. Whelan , S. E. Whitcomb , D. J. White , B. F. Whiting , C. Wilkinson , P. A. Willems , L. Williams , B. Willke , L. Winkelmann , W. Winkler , C. C. Wipf , A. G. Wiseman , G. Woan , R. Wooley , J. Worden , I. Yakushin , H. Yamamoto , K. Yamamoto , D. Yeaton-Massey , S. Yoshida , P. P. Yu , M. Zanolin , L. Zhang , Z. Zhang , C. Zhao , N. Zotov , M. E. Zucker , J. Zweizig

Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy in the nascent era

The detections of gravitational waves (GW) by LIGO/Virgo collaborations provide various possibilities to physics and astronomy. We are quite sure that GW observations will develop a lot both in precision and in number owing to the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-04-07 Makoto Arimoto , Hideki Asada , Michael L. Cherry , Michiko S. Fujii , Yasushi Fukazawa , Akira Harada , Kazuhiro Hayama , Takashi Hosokawa , Kunihito Ioka , Yoichi Itoh , Nobuyuki Kanda , Koji S. Kawabata , Kyohei Kawaguchi , Nobuyuki Kawai , Tsutomu Kobayashi , Kazunori Kohri , Yusuke Koshio , Kei Kotake , Jun Kumamoto , Masahiro N. Machida , Hideo Matsufuru , Tatehiro Mihara , Masaki Mori , Tomoki Morokuma , Shinji Mukohyama , Hiroyuki Nakano , Tatsuya Narikawa , Hitoshi Negoro , Atsushi Nishizawa , Takayuki Ohgami , Kazuyuki Omukai , Takanori Sakamoto , Shigeyuki Sako , Mahito Sasada , Yuichiro Sekiguchi , Motoko Serino , Jiro Soda , Satoshi Sugita , Kohsuke Sumiyoshi , Hajime Susa , Teruaki Suyama , Hirotaka Takahashi , Kazuya Takahashi , Tomoya Takiwaki , Takahiro Tanaka , Masaomi Tanaka , Ataru Tanikawa , Nozomu Tominaga , Nami Uchikata , Yousuke Utsumi , Mark R. Vagins , Kei Yamada , Michitoshi Yoshida

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

Localizing compact binary inspirals on the sky using ground-based gravitational wave interferometers

The inspirals and mergers of compact binaries are among the most promising events for ground-based gravitational-wave (GW) observatories. The detection of electromagnetic (EM) signals from these sources would provide complementary…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Samaya M. Nissanke , Jonathan L. Sievers , Neal Dalal , Daniel E. Holz

The missing link in gravitational-wave astronomy: A summary of discoveries waiting in the decihertz range

Since 2015 the gravitational-wave observations of LIGO and Virgo have transformed our understanding of compact-object binaries. In the years to come, ground-based gravitational-wave observatories such as LIGO, Virgo, and their successors…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-10-26 Manuel Arca Sedda , Christopher P L Berry , Karan Jani , Pau Amaro-Seoane , Pierre Auclair , Jonathon Baird , Tessa Baker , Emanuele Berti , Katelyn Breivik , Chiara Caprini , Xian Chen , Daniela Doneva , Jose M Ezquiaga , K E Saavik Ford , Michael L Katz , Shimon Kolkowitz , Barry McKernan , Guido Mueller , Germano Nardini , Igor Pikovski , Surjeet Rajendran , Alberto Sesana , Lijing Shao , Nicola Tamanini , Niels Warburton , Helvi Witek , Kaze Wong , Michael Zevin

Gravitational Waves: A New Astronomy

Contemporary astronomy is undergoing a revolution, perhaps even more important than that which took place with the advent of radioastronomy in the 1960s, and then the opening of the sky to observations in the other electromagnetic…

Popular Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Luc Blanchet

Through the lens of Sgr A$^*$: identifying and resolving strongly lensed Continuous Gravitational Waves beyond the Einstein radius

Lensed gravitational waves will offer new means to probe the distribution of matter in the universe, complementary to electromagnetic signals. Lensed continuous gravitational waves provide new challenges and opportunities beyond those of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-02-01 Stefano Savastano , Filippo Vernizzi , Miguel Zumalacárregui

Low Latency transient search of Gravitational Waves for the Advanced Detectors

The reliability of the first detection is one of the most interesting challenges for the gravitational wave community. To increase the detection confidence, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have already started coincident observations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Marco Drago

Localization of short duration gravitational-wave transients with the early advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo, advanced ground-based gravitational-wave detectors, will begin collecting science data in 2015. With first detections expected to follow, it is important to quantify…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-11 Reed Essick , Salvatore Vitale , Erik Katsavounidis , Gabriele Vedovato , Sergey Klimenko

Gravitational wave astronomy with LIGO and similar detectors in the next decade

We describe the plans for gravitational-wave observations and astrophysics that will be carried out by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) in the next decade using data from the LIGO Observatories in the US, and sister facilities abroad…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-04-09 The LIGO Scientific collaboration

Gravitational Wave Detection and Information Extraction via Neural Networks

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) was the first laboratory to measure the gravitational waves. It was needed an exceptional experimental design to measure distance changes much less than a radius of a proton. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-24 Gerson R. Santos , Marcela P. Figueiredo , Antonio de Pádua Santos , Pavlos Protopapas , Tiago A. E. Ferreira

Enhancing the sensitivity of the LIGO gravitational wave detector by using squeezed states of light

Nearly a century after Einstein first predicted the existence of gravitational waves, a global network of earth-based gravitational wave observatories is seeking to directly detect this faint radiation using precision laser interferometry.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-02 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

Probing neutron stars with gravitational waves

Within the next decade gravitational-wave (GW) observations by Advanced LIGO in the United States, Advanced Virgo and GEO HF in Europe, and possibly other ground-based instruments will provide unprecedented opportunities to look directly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-17 Benjamin J. Owen

Challenges and Opportunities of Gravitational Wave Searches above 10 kHz

The first direct measurement of gravitational waves by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations has opened up new avenues to explore our Universe. This white paper outlines the challenges and gains expected in gravitational-wave searches at…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-02-04 Nancy Aggarwal , Odylio D. Aguiar , Diego Blas , Andreas Bauswein , Giancarlo Cella , Sebastian Clesse , Adrian Michael Cruise , Valerie Domcke , Sebastian Ellis , Daniel G. Figueroa , Gabriele Franciolini , Camilo Garcia-Cely , Andrew Geraci , Maxim Goryachev , Hartmut Grote , Mark Hindmarsh , Asuka Ito , Joachim Kopp , Sung Mook Lee , Killian Martineau , Jamie McDonald , Francesco Muia , Nikhil Mukund , David Ottaway , Marco Peloso , Krisztian Peters , Fernando Quevedo , Angelo Ricciardone , Andreas Ringwald , Jessica Steinlechner , Sebastian Steinlechner , Sichun Sun , Carlos Tamarit , Michael E. Tobar , Francisco Torrenti , Caner Ünal , Graham White

A Program for Multi-Messenger Standard Siren Cosmology in the Era of LIGO A+, Rubin Observatory, and Beyond

The most promising variation of the standard siren technique combines gravitational-wave (GW) data for binary neutron star (BNS) mergers with redshift measurements enabled by their electromagnetic (EM) counterparts, to constrain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-11 Hsin-Yu Chen , Philip S. Cowperthwaite , Brian D. Metzger , Edo Berger

LCGT and the global network of gravitational wave detectors

Gravitational wave is a propagation of space-time distortion, which is predicted by Einstein in general relativity. Strong gravitational waves will come from some drastic astronomical objects, e.g. coalescence of neutron star binaries,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-15 Nobuyuki Kanda , the LCGT collaboration

The Accuracy of Neutron Star Radius Measurement with the Next Generation of Terrestrial Gravitational-Wave Observatories

In this paper, we explore the prospect for improving the measurement accuracy of masses and radii of neutron stars. We consider imminent and long-term upgrades of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo, as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2024-03-27 Rachael Huxford , Rahul Kashyap , Ssohrab Borhanian , Arnab Dhani , Ish Gupta , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Prospects for a precise equation of state measurement from Advanced LIGO and Cosmic Explorer

Gravitational-wave observations of neutron star mergers can probe the nuclear equation of state by measuring the imprint of the neutron star's tidal deformability on the signal. We investigate the ability of future gravitational-wave…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-04 Daniel Finstad , Laurel V. White , Duncan A. Brown