Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo
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Barsotti, Lisa; Biscans, Sebastien; Biscoveanu, Sylvia; Buikema, Aaron; Demos, Nicholas; Donovan, Frederick J; Eisenstein, Robert Alan; Evans, Matthew J; Fernandez Galiana, Alvaro-Miguel; Fritschel, Peter K; Ganapathy, Dhruva; Gras, Slawomir; Hall, Evan D.; Haster, Carl-Johan; Huang, Yiwen; Isi Banales, Maximiliano S; Katsavounidis, Erotokritos; Lane, B. B.; Lanza Jr, Robert K; London, L. T.; MacInnis, Myron E; Mansell, Georgia; Mason, Kenneth R; Massinger, Thomas J.; Matichard, Fabrice; Mavalvala, Nergis; McCuller, Lee P; Mittleman, Richard K; Mo, Geoffrey; Ray Pitambar Mohapatra, Satyanarayan; Ng, Kwan Yeung; Noh, Minkyun; Shoemaker, David H; Sudhir, Vivishek; Tse, Maggie; Vitale, Salvatore; Weiss, Rainer; Whittle, Christopher Mark; Yu, Hang; Yu, Haocun; Zucker, Michael E; ... Show more Show less
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© 2021 Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are monitoring the sky and collecting gravitational-wave strain data with sufficient sensitivity to detect signals routinely. In this paper we describe the data recorded by these instruments during their first and second observing runs. The main data products are gravitational-wave strain time series sampled at 16384 Hz. The datasets that include this strain measurement can be freely accessed through the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center at http://gw-openscience.org, together with data-quality information essential for the analysis of LIGO and Virgo data, documentation, tutorials, and supporting software.
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2021Department
LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology); MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsJournal
SoftwareX
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Elsevier BV
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2021. "Open data from the first and second observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo." SoftwareX, 13.
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