GWTC-3: Compact Binary Coalescences Observed by LIGO and Virgo During the Second Part of the Third Observing Run — Candidate data release

This material is part of several data products associated with GWTC-3, the third Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog from the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, and the KAGRA Collaboration. For more information, see the paper (dcc.ligo.org/LIGO-P2000318/public), the related material linked from this page, and the GWTC-3 data release documentation (www.gw-openscience.org/GWTC-3/). Candidate data release Data associated with candidates in GWTC-3. These are gravitational-wave candidates from the the third observing run (O3) of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors that pass a false alarm rate threshold of 2/day. We upload a tar file (search_data.tar.gz) containing all the data and a python notebook (GWTC3_search_data.ipynb) that provides a description on how to use the files contained in the dataset. Associated with each candidate are the search analysis results and a localization (assuming that the source is astrophysical). Four search analysis pipelines have been used: the templated-based GstLAL, MBTA and PyCBC, plus the template-free cWB. Localizations from the template-based pipelines are calculated using Bayestar, while cWB candidates are calculated by cWB itself. This release is primarily composed of results from the second part of O3 (O3b), but also includes a subset of results from the first part (O3a). A similar release was made for the previous GWTC-2.1 that contained candidates from the first part of O3 (O3a) from GstLAL, MBTA and PyCBC. We include updated probabilities of astrophysical origin for these candidates: each search analysis has a o3a_pastro directory that contains these results. Since GWTC-2.1 did not include cWB results, this release includes cWB O3a candidates in addition to O3b: the cWB directory contains a subdirectory called o3a_events that contains the O3a results. The probability of astrophysical origin is calculated assuming a compact binary coalescence source, which may not always be appropriate for the template-free cWB analysis. For more general background on gravitational-wave search analysis and sky maps, try the materials from a GW Open Data Workshop or the guide to LIGO–Virgo data analysis.

LIGO Laboratory and Advanced LIGO are funded by the United States National Science Foundation (NSF) as well as the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) of the United Kingdom, the Max-Planck-Society (MPS), and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction of Advanced LIGO and construction and operation of the GEO600 detector. Additional support for Advanced LIGO was provided by the Australian Research Council. Virgo is funded, through the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO), by the French Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), the Italian Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) and the Dutch Nikhef, with contributions by institutions from Belgium, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Monaco, Poland, Portugal, Spain. The construction and operation of KAGRA are funded by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), National Research Foundation (NRF) and Ministry of Science and ICT (MSIT) in Korea, Academia Sinica (AS) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (MoST) in Taiwan.

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