Evaluating KAGRA upgrade scenarios for multimessenger observations of binary neutron stars

Binary neutron star mergers are key targets for multimessenger astronomy, motivating future upgrades of gravitational-wave detectors.

For KAGRA, both broadband sensitivity improvements that increase the binary neutron star detection range, and high-frequency optimizations targeting neutron-star physics are under consideration.

We present a computationally efficient framework to evaluate the multimessenger performance of detector upgrades by combining Fisher-matrix estimates of localization area and localization volume with detector duty factors and binary neutron star merger rates.

We apply this framework to proposed KAGRA upgrade scenarios within the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA network.

For identical sources, the high-frequency upgrade improves sky localization by about 20% compared with the broadband option.

However, when detection rates are taken into account, the broadband upgrade yields a larger number of well-localized events.

Despite its shorter binary neutron star range than the other detectors, the inclusion of KAGRA increases the number of events localized within $10^3$ Mpc$^3$ volume by about 60%.

These results provide a quantitative framework for evaluating future detector upgrades from the perspective of multimessenger observations.