BENEFIT OF A LARGER DETECTOR ARRAY FOR PROMPT GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTION

We are at the dawn of making the first detection of gravitational waves (GWs). The advanced LIGO and VIRGO detectors are funded and are under construction with a promise of a few of detections a year. A larger GW network is forming with the KA-GRA detector in Japan partially funded and LIGO-India on the near horizon. A low-latency search pipeline is crucial for enabling follow-up electromagnetic observation when a gravitational-wave signal is detected. In this paper, we discuss the benefit for a larger network that includes AIGO - a GW detector at the southern hemisphere for low-latency detections of gravitaional waves. The status of current low-latency search pipelines for GWs from compact binary coalescence will be presented.