Open Data from the Third Observing Run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO
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2023-08-01
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LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration
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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 2019 April and lasting six months, O3b starting in 2019 November and lasting five months, and O3GK starting in 2020 April and lasting two 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 data set, 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.
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Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space and Planetary Science
Citation
LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration and KAGRA Collaboration 2023, 'Open Data from the Third Observing Run of LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and GEO', Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series, vol. 267, no. 2, 29. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acdc9f