Low-latency Gravitational-wave Alerts for Multimessenger Astronomy during the Second Advanced LIGO and Virgo Observing Run

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作者
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. D. [2 ]
Abraham, S. [3 ]
Acernese, F. [4 ,5 ]
Ackley, K. [6 ]
Adams, C. [7 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Adya, V. B. [8 ,9 ]
Affeldt, C. [8 ,9 ]
Agathos, M. [10 ]
Agatsuma, K. [11 ]
Aggarwal, N. [12 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [13 ]
Aiello, L. [14 ,15 ]
Ain, A. [3 ]
Ajith, P. [16 ]
Allen, G. [17 ]
Allocca, A. [18 ,19 ]
Aloy, M. A. [20 ]
Altin, P. A. [21 ]
Amato, A. [22 ]
Ananyeva, A. [1 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [23 ]
Angelova, S., V [24 ]
Antier, S. [25 ]
Appert, S. [1 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Areeda, J. S. [26 ]
Arene, M. [27 ]
Arnaud, N. [25 ,28 ]
Ascenzi, S. [29 ,30 ]
Ashton, G. [6 ]
Aston, S. M. [7 ]
Astone, P. [31 ]
Aubin, F. [32 ]
Aufmuth, P. [9 ]
AultONeal, K. [33 ]
Austin, C. [2 ]
Avendano, V [34 ]
Avila-Alvarez, A. [26 ]
Babak, S. [27 ,35 ]
Bacon, P. [27 ]
Badaracco, F. [14 ,15 ]
Bader, M. K. M. [36 ]
Bae, S. [37 ]
Baker, P. T. [38 ]
Baldaccini, F. [39 ,40 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Interuniv Ctr Astron & Astrophys, Pune 411007, Maharashtra, India
[4] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[5] Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, Sez Napoli, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[6] Monash Univ, Sch Phys & Astron, OzGrav, Clayton, Vic 3800, Australia
[7] LIGO Livingston Observ, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[8] Albert Einstein Inst, Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[9] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[10] Univ Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1TN, England
[11] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[12] MIT, LIGO, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[13] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
[14] GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
[15] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Lab Nazl Gran Sasso, I-67100 Assergi, Italy
[16] Tata Inst Fundamental Res, Int Ctr Theoret Sci, Bengaluru 560089, India
[17] Univ Illinois, NCSA, Urbana, IL 61801 USA
[18] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[20] Univ Valencia, Dept Astron & Astrofis, E-46100 Valencia, Spain
[21] Australian Natl Univ, OzGrav, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia
[22] CNRS IN2P3, LMA, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France
[23] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[24] Univ Strathclyde, SUPA, Glasgow G1 1XQ, Lanark, Scotland
[25] Univ Paris Saclay, LAL, CNRS IN2P3, Univ Paris Sud, F-91898 Orsay, France
[26] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[27] Univ Paris Diderot, APC, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Observ Paris,CEA,Irfu,CNRS,IN2P3, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[28] EGO, I-56021 Pisa, Italy
[29] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[30] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma Tor Vergata, I-00133 Rome, Italy
[31] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[32] Univ Grenoble Alpes, LAPP, Univ Savoie Mt Blanc, CNRS IN2P3, F-74941 Annecy, France
[33] Embry Riddle Aeronaut Univ, Prescott, AZ 86301 USA
[34] Montclair State Univ, Montclair, NJ 07043 USA
[35] Albert Einstein Inst, Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, D-14476 Potsdam, Germany
[36] Nikhef, Sci Pk 105, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[37] Korea Inst Sci & Technol Informat, Daejeon 34141, South Korea
[38] West Virginia Univ, Morgantown, WV 26506 USA
[39] Univ Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[40] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[41] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[42] Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
[43] Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[44] LIGO Hanford Observ, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[45] Caltech CaRT, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[46] RMKI, Wigner RCP, Konkoly Thege Miklos Ut 29-33, H-1121 Budapest, Hungary
[47] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[48] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[49] Univ Camerino, Dipartimento Fis, I-62032 Camerino, Italy
[50] Univ Padua, Dipartimento Fis & Astron, I-35131 Padua, Italy
基金
瑞士国家科学基金会; 新加坡国家研究基金会; 匈牙利科学研究基金会; 中国国家自然科学基金; 俄罗斯基础研究基金会; 英国工程与自然科学研究理事会; 俄罗斯科学基金会; 澳大利亚研究理事会;
关键词
gravitational waves; methods: data analysis; NEUTRON-STAR MERGERS; GAMMA-RAY BURST; X-RAY; COMPACT BINARIES; GW170817; TRANSIENTS; PROSPECTS; GALAXY; NUCLEOSYNTHESIS; COUNTERPARTS;
D O I
10.3847/1538-4357/ab0e8f
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Advanced LIGO's second observing run (O2), conducted from 2016 November 30 to 2017 August 25, combined with Advanced Virgo's first observations in 2017 August, witnessed the birth of gravitational-wave multimessenger astronomy. The first ever gravitational-wave detection from the coalescence of two neutron stars, GW170817, and its gamma-ray counterpart, GRB 170817A, led to an electromagnetic follow-up of the event at an unprecedented scale. Several teams from across the world searched for EM/neutrino counterparts to GW170817, paving the way for the discovery of optical, X-ray, and radio counterparts. In this article, we describe the online identification of gravitational-wave transients and the distribution of gravitational-wave alerts by the LIGO and Virgo collaborations during O2. We also describe the gravitational-wave observables that were sent in the alerts to enable searches for their counterparts. Finally, we give an overview of the online candidate alerts shared with observing partners during O2. Alerts were issued for 14 candidates, 6 of which have been confirmed as gravitational-wave events associated with the merger of black holes or neutron stars. Of the 14 alerts, 8 were issued less than an hour after data acquisition.
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