Prospects and challenges in the electromagnetic follow-up of LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave transients

The kilometer-scale ground based gravitational wave (GW) detectors, LIGO and Virgo, are being upgraded to their advanced configurations. We expect the two LIGO observatories to undertake a 3 month science run in 2015 with a limited sensitivity. Virgo should come online in 2016, and join LIGO for a 6...

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Main Author: Vitale, Salvatore
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: SPIE 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109099
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2700-0767