Gaur, G. et al.G. et al.Gaur2025-08-302025-08-302016-02-0810.1007/lrr-2016-12-s2.0-84959257630https://repository.iitgn.ac.in/handle/IITG2025/21959We present a possible observing scenario for the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors over the next decade, with the intention of providing information to the astronomy community to facilitate planning for multi-messenger astronomy with gravitational waves. We determine the expected sensitivity of the network to transient gravitational-wave signals, and study the capability of the network to determine the sky location of the source. We report our findings for gravitational-wave transients, with particular focus on gravitational-wave signals from the inspiral of binary neutron-star systems, which are considered the most promising for multi-messenger astronomy. The ability to localize the sources of the detected signals depends on the geographical distribution of the detectors and their relative sensitivity, and 90% credible regions can be as large as thousands of square degrees when only two sensitive detectors are operational. Determining the sky position of a significant fraction of detected signals to areas of 5 deg²to 20 deg²will require at least three detectors of sensitivity within a factor of ~ 2 of each other and with a broad frequency bandwidth. Should the third LIGO detector be relocated to India as expected, a significant fraction of gravitational-wave signals will be localized to a few square degrees by gravitational-wave observations alone.trueData analysis | Electromagnetic counterparts | Gravitational waves | Gravitational-wave detectorsArticlehttps://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/lrr-2016-1.pdf143383511-398 February 20164841483WOS:000370123100001