Gravitational-wave observations became commonplace in Advanced LIGO-Virgo's recently concluded third observing run. 56 nonretracted candidates were identified and publicly announced in near real time. Gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers, however, remain of special interest since they can be precursors to highenergy astrophysical phenomena like γ-ray bursts and kilonovae. While late-time electromagnetic emissions provide important information about the astrophysical processes within, the prompt emission along with gravitational waves uniquely reveals the extreme matter and gravity during-and in the seconds following-merger. Rapid communication of source location and properties from the gravitational-wave data is crucial to facilitate multimessenger follow-up of such sources. This is especially enabled if the partner facilities are forewarned via an early warning (pre-merger) alert. Here we describe the commissioning and performance of such a low-latency infrastructure within LIGO-Virgo. We present results from an end-to-end mock data challenge that detects binary neutron star mergers and alerts partner facilities before merger. We set expectations for these alerts in future observing runs. © 2021 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

First demonstration of early warning gravitational-wave alerts / Magee, R.; Chatterjee, D.; Singer, L. P.; Sachdev, S.; Kovalam, M.; Mo, G.; Anderson, S.; Brady, P.; Brockill, P.; Cannon, K.; Canton, T. D.; Chu, Q.; Clearwater, P.; Codoreanu, A.; Drago, M.; Godwin, P.; Ghosh, S.; Greco, G.; Hanna, C.; Kapadia, S. J.; Katsavounidis, E.; Oloworaran, V.; Pace, A. E.; Panther, F.; Patwary, A.; De Pietri, R.; Piotrzkowski, B.; Prestegard, T.; Rei, L.; Sreekumar, A. K.; Szczepanczyk, M. J.; Valsan, V.; Viets, A.; Wade, M.; Wen, L.; Zweizig, J.. - In: THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS. - ISSN 2041-8205. - 910:2(2021), p. L21.L21. [10.3847/2041-8213/abed54]

First demonstration of early warning gravitational-wave alerts

De Pietri R.;
2021-01-01

Abstract

Gravitational-wave observations became commonplace in Advanced LIGO-Virgo's recently concluded third observing run. 56 nonretracted candidates were identified and publicly announced in near real time. Gravitational waves from binary neutron star mergers, however, remain of special interest since they can be precursors to highenergy astrophysical phenomena like γ-ray bursts and kilonovae. While late-time electromagnetic emissions provide important information about the astrophysical processes within, the prompt emission along with gravitational waves uniquely reveals the extreme matter and gravity during-and in the seconds following-merger. Rapid communication of source location and properties from the gravitational-wave data is crucial to facilitate multimessenger follow-up of such sources. This is especially enabled if the partner facilities are forewarned via an early warning (pre-merger) alert. Here we describe the commissioning and performance of such a low-latency infrastructure within LIGO-Virgo. We present results from an end-to-end mock data challenge that detects binary neutron star mergers and alerts partner facilities before merger. We set expectations for these alerts in future observing runs. © 2021 The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.
2021
First demonstration of early warning gravitational-wave alerts / Magee, R.; Chatterjee, D.; Singer, L. P.; Sachdev, S.; Kovalam, M.; Mo, G.; Anderson, S.; Brady, P.; Brockill, P.; Cannon, K.; Canton, T. D.; Chu, Q.; Clearwater, P.; Codoreanu, A.; Drago, M.; Godwin, P.; Ghosh, S.; Greco, G.; Hanna, C.; Kapadia, S. J.; Katsavounidis, E.; Oloworaran, V.; Pace, A. E.; Panther, F.; Patwary, A.; De Pietri, R.; Piotrzkowski, B.; Prestegard, T.; Rei, L.; Sreekumar, A. K.; Szczepanczyk, M. J.; Valsan, V.; Viets, A.; Wade, M.; Wen, L.; Zweizig, J.. - In: THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL LETTERS. - ISSN 2041-8205. - 910:2(2021), p. L21.L21. [10.3847/2041-8213/abed54]
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