Open data from the third observing run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA and GEO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, KAGRA Collaboration, Gareth Stephen Cabourn Davies, Oliver Piers Edy, Susanna Marie Green, I. W. Harry, Charlie Graham Hoy, Andrew Lundgren, Ronaldas Macas, Connor McIsaac, Simone Mozzon, L. K. Nuttall, Arthur Ellis Tolley, Connor Richard Weaving, Andrew Robert Williamson

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Abstract

The global network of gravitational-wave observatories now includes five detectors, namely LIGO Hanford, LIGO Livingston, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO 600. These detectors collected data during their third observing run, O3, composed of three phases: O3a starting in April of 2019 and lasting six months, O3b starting in November of 2019 and lasting five months, and O3GK starting in April of 2020 and lasting 2 weeks. In this paper we describe these data and various other science products that can be freely accessed through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center at https://gwosc.org. The main dataset, consisting of the gravitational-wave strain time series that contains the astrophysical signals, is released together with supporting data useful for their analysis and documentation, tutorials, as well as analysis software packages.
Original languageEnglish
Article number267
Pages (from-to)1-28
Number of pages28
JournalThe Astrophysical Journal
Volume267
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 28 Jul 2023

Keywords

  • gr-qc
  • UKRI
  • STFC

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