Compact binary coalescence sensitivity estimates with injection campaigns during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations’ fourth observing run
R. C. Essick, M. W. Coughlin, M. Zevin, Deep Chatterjee, Teagan A. Clarke, Storm Colloms, U. Mali, Simona J. Miller, Nathan Steinle, Pratyusava Baral, A. C. Baylor, Gareth Cabourn Davies, T. Dent, Prathamesh Joshi, Praveen Kumar, C. Messick, T. Mishra, A. Ouzriat, K. S. Phukon, M. Piendibene, Marion Pillas, M. Trevor, T. A. Callister, M. Fishbach
Abstract
We describe the effort to characterize gravitational-wave searches and detector sensitivity to different types of compact binary coalescences during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaborations' fourth observing run. We discuss the design requirements and example use cases for this data product, constructed from $>4.33\ifmmode\times\else\texttimes\fi{}{10}^{8}$ injections during O4a alone. We also identify subtle effects with high confidence, like diurnal duty cycles within detectors. This paper accompanies a public data release of the curated injection set, and the Appendixes give detailed examples of how to use the publicly available data.