Low-latency analysis pipeline for compact binary coalescences in the advanced gravitational wave detector era

TL;DR

The paper presents the MBTA pipeline, a low-latency, computationally efficient method for detecting gravitational waves from compact binary coalescences, enabling rapid alerts for electromagnetic follow-up in the advanced detector era.

Contribution

It introduces recent upgrades and validation of the MBTA pipeline, demonstrating its readiness for the advanced gravitational wave detector era.

Findings

MBTA can identify GW candidates online within a minute.

The pipeline has been validated with recent tests and upgrades.

It is suitable for real-time alerts and data quality studies.

Abstract

The multi-band template analysis (MBTA) pipeline is a low-latency coincident analysis pipeline for the detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from compact binary coalescences. MBTA runs with a low computational cost, and can identify candidate GW events online with a sub-minute latency. The low computational running cost of MBTA also makes it useful for data quality studies. Events detected by MBTA online can be used to alert astronomical partners for electromagnetic follow-up. We outline the current status of MBTA and give details of recent pipeline upgrades and validation tests that were performed in preparation for the first advanced detector observing period. The MBTA pipeline is ready for the outset of the advanced detector era and the exciting prospects it will bring.