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Stable fiber-illumination for extremely precise radial velocities with NEID
Shubham Kanodia, Andrea S. J. Lin, Emily Lubar +24
NEID is a high-resolution red-optical precision radial velocity (RV) spectrograph recently commissioned at the WIYN 3.5 m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, Arizona, USA.…
A Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background in LISA from Unresolved White Dwarf Binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Steven Rieck, Alexander W. Criswell, Valeriya Korol +3
The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) is expected to detect a wide variety of gravitational wave sources in the mHz band. Some of these signals will elude individual detect…
Observing the Sun as a star: Design and early results from the NEID solar feed
Andrea S. J. Lin, Andrew Monson, Suvrath Mahadevan +27
Efforts with extreme-precision radial velocity (EPRV) instruments to detect small-amplitude planets are largely limited, on many timescales, by the effects of stellar variability a…
LIGO Detector Characterization in the Second and Third Observing Runs
D. Davis, J. S. Areeda, B. K. Berger +284
The characterization of the Advanced LIGO detectors in the second and third observing runs has increased the sensitivity of the instruments, allowing for a higher number of detecta…
Ghosts of NEID's Past
Shubham Kanodia, Joe P. Ninan, Andrew J. Monson +14
The NEID spectrograph is a R 120,000 resolution fiber-fed and highly stabilized spectrograph for extreme radial velocity (RV) precision. It is being commissioned at the 3.5…
Optical Frequency Comb Calibrated Near Infrared Solar Heterodyne Spectroscopy
Connor Fredrick, Freja Olsen, Ryan Terrien +3
We perform heterodyne spectroscopy at 1.56 micron with a tunable laser and thermal radiation from the Sun. The laser tuning is calibrated with a frequency comb, providing a simple…
Solar Contamination in Extreme Precision Radial Velocity Measurements: Deleterious Effects and Prospects for Mitigation
Arpita Roy, Sam Halverson, Suvrath Mahadevan +19
Solar contamination, due to moonlight and atmospheric scattering of sunlight, can cause systematic errors in stellar radial velocity (RV) measurements that significantly detract fr…
Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: Optimizing Multi-Telescope Observations of Gravitational-Wave Counterparts
Michael W. Coughlin, Sarah Antier, David Corre +9
The ever-increasing sensitivity of the network of gravitational-wave detectors has resulted in the accelerated rate of detections from compact binary coalescence systems in the thi…
Optimizing searches for electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave triggers
Michael W. Coughlin, Duo Tao, Man Leong Chan +9
With the detection of a binary neutron star system and its corresponding electromagnetic counterparts, a new window of transient astronomy has opened. Due to the size of the error…
Identification and mitigation of narrow spectral artifacts that degrade searches for persistent gravitational waves in the first two observing runs of Advanced LIGO
P. B. Covas, A. Effler, E. Goetz +260
Searches are under way in Advanced LIGO and Virgo data for persistent gravitational waves from continuous sources, e.g. rapidly rotating galactic neutron stars, and stochastic sour…
Globally coherent short duration magnetic field transients and their effect on ground based gravitational-wave detectors
Izabela Kowalska-Leszczynska, Marie-Anne Bizouard, Tomasz Bulik +8
It has been recognized that the magnetic fields from the Schumann resonances could affect the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background by LIGO and Virgo. Presented her…
Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors
B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +720
The second-generation of gravitational-wave detectors are just starting operation, and have already yielding their first detections. Research is now concentrated on how to maximize…
First low frequency all-sky search for continuous gravitational wave signals
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +921
In this paper we present the results of the first low frequency all-sky search of continuous gravitational wave signals conducted on Virgo VSR2 and VSR4 data. The search covered th…
All-sky, narrowband, gravitational-wave radiometry with folded data
Eric Thrane, Sanjit Mitra, Nelson Christensen +2
Gravitational-wave radiometry is a powerful tool by which weak signals with unknown signal morphologies are recovered through a process of cross correlation. Radiometry has been us…
Detecting very long-lived gravitational-wave transients lasting hours to weeks
Eric Thrane, Vuk Mandic, Nelson Christensen
We explore the possibility of very long-lived gravitational-wave transients (and detector artifacts) lasting hours to weeks. Such very long signals are both interesting in their ow…
Narrow-band search of continuous gravitational-wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +894
In this paper we present the results of a coherent narrow-band search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from the Crab and Vela pulsars conducted on Virgo VSR4 data. In orde…
Correlated noise in networks of gravitational-wave detectors: subtraction and mitigation
Eric Thrane, Nelson Christensen, Robert M. S. Schofield +1
One of the key science goals of advanced gravitational-wave detectors is to observe a stochastic gravitational-wave background. However, recent work demonstrates that correlated ma…
Reconstructing the sky location of gravitational-wave detected compact binary systems: methodology for testing and comparison
Trevor Sidery, Ben Aylott, Nelson Christensen +20
The problem of reconstructing the sky position of compact binary coalescences detected via gravitational waves is a central one for future observations with the ground-based networ…
First Searches for Optical Counterparts to Gravitational-wave Candidate Events
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +904
During the LIGO and Virgo joint science runs in 2009-2010, gravitational wave (GW) data from three interferometer detectors were analyzed within minutes to select GW candidate even…
Correlated magnetic noise in global networks of gravitational-wave interferometers: observations and implications
Eric Thrane, Nelson Christensen, Robert Schofield
One of the most ambitious goals of gravitational-wave astronomy is to observe the stochastic gravitational-wave background. Correlated noise in two or more detectors can introduce…
Identification of noise artifacts in searches for long-duration gravitational-wave transients
Tanner Prestegard, Eric Thrane, Nelson L. Christensen +5
We present an algorithm for the identification of transient noise artifacts (glitches) in cross-correlation searches for long O(10s) gravitational-wave transients. The algorithm ut…
Implementation and testing of the first prompt search for gravitational wave transients with electromagnetic counterparts
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, J. Abadie +815
Aims. A transient astrophysical event observed in both gravitational wave (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) channels would yield rich scientific rewards. A first program initiating EM…
Long gravitational-wave transients and associated detection strategies for a network of terrestrial interferometers
Eric Thrane, Shivaraj Kandhasamy, Christian D Ott +10
Searches for gravitational waves (GWs) traditionally focus on persistent sources (e.g., pulsars or the stochastic background) or on transients sources (e.g., compact binary inspira…