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arxiv: 2102.04555 · v2 · pith:RWTX7IQ7new · submitted 2021-02-08 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

First demonstration of early warning gravitational wave alerts

Ryan Magee , Deep Chatterjee , Leo P. Singer , Surabhi Sachdev , Manoj Kovalam , Geoffrey Mo , Stuart Anderson , Patrick Brady
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Patrick Brockill Kipp Cannon Tito Dal Canton Qi Chu Patrick Clearwater Alex Codoreanu Marco Drago Patrick Godwin Shaon Ghosh Giuseppe Greco Chad Hanna Shasvath J. Kapadia Erik Katsavounidis Victor Oloworaran Alexander E. Pace Fiona Panther Anwarul Patwary Roberto De Pietri Brandon Piotrzkowski Tanner Prestegard Luca Rei Anala K. Sreekumar Marek J. Szczepa\'nczyk Vinaya Valsan Aaron Viets Madeline Wade Linqing Wen John Zweizig
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Gravitational-wave observations became commonplace in Advanced LIGO-Virgo's recently concluded third observing run. 56 non-retracted 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 high-energy astrophysical phenomena like $\gamma$-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 multi-messenger 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.

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