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\section{Spinning Analysis}  \citet{2013arXiv1304.0670L} \citet{Singer_2014}  details the detection, low-latency localization, and `medium-latency' follow-up of the simulated signals in 2015. Missing from the study is the full characterization of the source, accounting for spin. In this work we simulate this final step in the detection and characterization of BNS signals using the ``SpinTaylorT4'' fifteen-dimensional model for the GWs emmitted by generically spinning, cicularized compact binary mergers \cite{Buonanno_2003,Buonanno_2009}. The population chosen to be simulated for these studies, with spin magnitudes $\chi < 0.05$, have small enough spins that biases in parameter estimates due to assuming the components to be non-spinning are well below the statistical uncertainty (CITATION NEEDED). This choice was motivated by the charactistics of neutron stars found in BNS systems to date, however nuetron stars \emph{outside} of BNS systems have been observed with spins as high as $\chi = 0.4$ \cite{Hessels_2006,Brown_2012}, and depending on the NS equation-of-state (EOS) could have spins as high as $\chi \lesssim 0.7$ \cite{Lo_2011}.