VESB NEWS Viviana Fafone and Roberto Passaquieti for

VESB NEWS Viviana Fafone and Roberto Passaquieti for the VESB VIR-0288 A-17 VSC Meeting - May 03, 2017 VIR-0288 A-17 1

NEXT CONFERENCES q Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW 2017) (Annecy, France: May 30 June 02) q Philippe Bacon: Enhancing un-modeled gravitational wave searches sensitivity with Wavegraph q Yann Bouffanais: A Riemann manifold Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (RMHMC) for binary neutron star parameter estimation q Marica Branchesi: The ongoing EM alert program and prospect for joint data analysis q Nelson Christensen: Searching for the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo q Sabrina D'Antonio: An improved semi-coherent follow-up method for Frequency Hough all-sky candidates q Walter Del Pozzo: Results and prospect for testing GR q Paola Leaci: The detection of Continuous Gravitational Waves in the Advanced Detector Era q Ornela Juliana Piccinni: Setting up a direct search for Continuous Wave signals using the Band Sample Data collection q Maria Concetta Tringali: Extracting the post-merger gravitational wave signal from binary neutron stars. q. ECT workshop: Bridging Nuclear and Gravitational Physics: the Dense Matter Equation of State (Trento, Italy: June 05 -09): q Claudia Lazzaro: Tool based on un-modeled transient search to extract Post merger neutron stars properties q Walter Del Pozzo: Inference of the neutron star equation of state from the observation of gravitational waves from coalescing binary neutron stars VSC Meeting - May 03, 2017 VIR-0288 A-17 2

NEXT CONFERENCES q Generation-GW: Diving into Gravitational Waves (Virgin Island, US: June 05 -09) q Barbara Patricelli: Prospects for joint GW, high-energy and very high-energy EM observations of binary neutron star merg q Metro. Aero. Space (Padua, June 21 -23) q Speaker from Trento-Padua Group q European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS -Prague: June 26 -30) q Massimiliano Razzano: q Prospects for joint observations of gravitational waves and high-energy photons from merging binary neutron stars q Public Outreach at EGO/Virgo: communicating gravitational wave science to the European public q Samaya Nissanke: Follow the chirp and roar: characterising compact object mergers with gravitational waves and electromagnetic measurements q EPS Conference on High Energy Physics (Venice: July 05 -12) q q q Nicolas Arnaud: Status of the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo Detectors Giancarlo Cella: TBD Claudia Lazzaro: GW transient searches to probe Neutron star physics Edward Porter: Results of transient GW searches with Advanced LIGO Michele Punturo: TBD VSC Meeting - May 03, 2017 VIR-0288 A-17 3

NEXT CONFERENCES q Twelfth Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Pasadena: July 09 -14) q Giovanni Losurdo (invited): current state of Gravitational Wave Observing q Flavio Travasso: Status of the Monolithic Suspensions for Advanced Virgo q Luca Naticchioni: The payloads of Advanced Virgo: current status and upgrades q Alex Amato: . . . q Balaton Summer School in Physics (Lake Balaton-HU: July 17 -23) q Franco Frasconi (invited): title TBD (Ad. V suspensions) q Eric Genin (invited): title TBD (Ad. V ITF) q TAUP 2017(Subdury, ON, Canada, : July 24 -29) q Antonino Chiummo: Advanced Virgo Status (for the Virgo Coll-) q 18 th Lomonosov Conference (Moscow, Sept. 11 -15) q Jo Van den Brandt: title TBD q Walter Del Pozzo: title TBD q The amazing life of stars: from the Main Sequence to the GW emission (Cefalù, Sicily: Sept. 04 -08) q Fulvio Ricci (invited): Ad. V status q Giulia Stratta: EM counterparts of GW detections q Gianluca M. Guidi: The future astrophysics of GW VSC Meeting - May 03, 2017 VIR-0288 A-17 4

Published Collaboration Papers (since VSC on March 29 th) q First Search for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars with Advanced LIGO https: //doi. org/10. 3847/1538 -4357/aa 677 f q The Astrophysical Journal, 839: 12 – Published 10 April 2017 q Effects of waveform model systematics on the interpretation of GW 150914 https: //doi. org/10. 1088/1361 -6382/aa 6854 q Class. Quantum Grav. 34 (2017) 104002– Published 12 April 2017 q Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544 https: //journals. aps. org/prd/abstract/10. 1103/Phys. Rev. D. 95. 082005) q Phys. Rev. D 95, 082005 – Published 19 April 2017 VSC Meeting - May 03, 2017 VIR-0288 A-17 5

GW 170104 Paper q Final 1 -week re-circulation of GW 170104: Observation of a 50 -solar mass > binary black hole coalescence at redshift 0. 2 (version V 7) q Deadline May 08 q VESB Link(https: //www. ego-gw. it/editorialboard/download. aspx? file=614) q P&P link: https: //pnp. ligo. org/P 170104/ q Virgo Reviewers (S. Nissanke, A. Chincarini). q Target: PRL q The review team in-charge of the dipole radiation analysis in the GW 170104 paper (V 6) has recognized that an approximation made in the analysis is invalid. After consulting the developers and the reviewers, PWT decided to completely remove dipole radiation analysis from the paper. VSC Meeting - May 03, 2017 VIR-0288 A-17 6

Paper Erratum q O 1 Stochastic isotropic search paper: Upper Limits on the Stochastic Gravitational-Wave Background from Advanced LIGO’s First Observing Run Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 121101 – Published 24 March 2017 • Mail by Andrew Matas on May 2 nd: "It has recently come to the attention of the stochastic group that there was an error in Figure 1 of the O 1 isotropic search paperhttps: //journals. aps. org/prl/abstract/10. 1103/Phys. Rev. Lett. 118. 121101. Essentially, in this figure we show an estimator for the energy density in the stochastic background multiplied by h 0^2, instead of the energy density in the stochastic background, where h 0=0. 68 is the Hubble constant divided by 100 km/s/Mpc. This does not affect any other aspect of the paper, including parameter estimation and upper limits. We are planning to submit an erratum to PRL. A draft of the erratum is on the DCC here: https: //dcc. ligo. org/P 1700092 • Deadline for comments: May 5, 2017 • Issue already presented to the stochastic group, as well as the DAC and LSC Executive Committee. VSC Meeting - May 03, 2017 VIR-0288 A-17 7

Publication Rules q The document we use as guidelines is called "LVC Publications Policies for O 1” (see https: //dcc. ligo. org/LIGO-M 1500298 ) q Everyone is assuming that these rules also stand for O 2. q To make things clear, we should rename the document to "LVC Publications Policies for O 1 and O 2”. q The proposed change has been discussed and approved in the LSC Ex. Comm on May 1 st. q VSC approval is requested. VSC Meeting - May 03, 2017 VIR-0288 A-17 8