Operations White Paper (Summer 2021 Edition) - Public Version

Document #:

LIGO-T2100430-v2

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

This is a public version of the 2021 Operations White Paper

Files in Document:

• Operations White Paper (Summer 2021 Edition) - Public Version (opswp2021_public.pdf, file is not accessible)

Topics:

• Detector
• Astrophysics / Multi-messenger
• Detector Characterization
• Operations
• Data quality / vetoes
• Computing/archiving
• Calibration

Author Groups:

• LVK

Notes and Changes:

Changed earliest date for O4 from June 2022 to August 2022.