Pôle Astroparticules, Astrophysique et Cosmologie (A2C)

First demonstration of early warning gravitational wave alerts

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…

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GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First Half of the Third Observing Run

https://in2p3.cnrs.fr/fr/cnrsinfo/nouvelle-edition-du-catalogue-ligo-virgo-suite-run-o3 La version française du "Science summary" qui accompagne la mise à jour du catalogue La publication scientifique: GWTC-2: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the First…

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GRANDMA observations of advanced LIGO’s and advanced Virgo’s third observational campaign

Abstract: (Oxford University Press) GRANDMA (Global Rapid Advanced Network Devoted to the Multi-messenger Addicts) is a network of 25 telescopes of different sizes, including both photometric and spectroscopic facilities. The…

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Gravitational-wave Merger Forecasting: Scenarios for the Early Detection and Localization of Compact-binary Mergers with Ground-based Observatories

Abstract: (IOP) We present the prospects for the early (pre-merger) detection and localization of compact-binary coalescences using gravitational waves over the next 10 yr. Early warning can enable the direct…

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GW190521: A Binary Black Hole Merger with a Total Mass of 150 M⊙

Abstract: (APS) On May 21, 2019 at 03:02:29 UTC Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observed a short duration gravitational-wave signal, GW190521, with a three-detector network signal-to-noise ratio of 14.7, and…

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Realtime search for compact binary mergers in Advanced LIGO and Virgo’s third observing run using PyCBC Live

Abstract: (arXiv) The third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo took place between April 2019 and March 2020 and resulted in dozens of gravitational-wave candidates, many of which…

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Omicron: a tool to characterize transient noise in gravitational-wave detectors

The Omicron software is a tool developed to perform a multi-resolution time-frequency analysis of data from gravitational-wave detectors: the LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA detectors. Omicron generates spectrograms from whitened data…

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The first six months of the Advanced LIGO’s and Advanced Virgo’s third observing run with GRANDMA

Abstract: (Oxford University Press) We present the Global Rapid Advanced Network Devoted to the Multi-messenger Addicts (GRANDMA). The network consists of 21 telescopes with both photometric and spectroscopic facilities. They…

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Optimizing gravitational waves follow-up using galaxies stellar mass

Abstract: (Oxford University Press) We present a new strategy to optimize the electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave triggers. This method is based on the widely used galaxy targeting approach where…

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Search for advanced LIGO single interferometer compact binary coalescence signals in coincidence with Gamma-ray events in Fermi-GBM

Abstract: (IOP) Presented is the description of a new and general method used to search for γ-ray counterparts to gravitational-wave (GW) triggers. This method is specifically applied to single GW…

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