LSC-Virgo Operations White Paper (Summer 2020 edition)

Document #:

LIGO-T2000294-v4

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

The successful operation of the LIGO and Virgo detectors and key infrastructure are critical to enabling gravitational-wave astronomy.
Gravitational wave detections are made possible by optimized instrument sensitivity and uptime, well-characterized noise, accurately calibrated data, and robust computational infrastructure that supports not only the detectors but also the data analysis pipelines used to identify and characterize gravitational wave signals.
These activities are undertaken by the LIGO Laboratory in collaboration with the broader LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and the Virgo Collaboration.

The source files for the paper are in the git repository at:
https://git.ligo.org/operations/operations-white-paper-2020

Files in Document:

• LSC-Virgo Operations White Paper (Summer 2020 edition) (opswp2020.pdf, file is not accessible)

Topics:

• External Collaboration
• Commissioning
• Astrophysics / Multi-messenger
• Detector Characterization
• Data quality / vetoes
• Calibration
• Data and Computing
• Operations
• Computing/archiving

Author Groups:

• LVK

Notes and Changes:

Some small fixes to Low Latency section.

Referenced by:

• LIGO-T2000424-v2: The LSC-Virgo-KAGRA Observational Science White Paper (Summer 2020 edition)