  We study the sum $\Sigma_q(U)=\sum_{\substack{d,e\leq
U\\(de,q)=1}}\frac{\mu(d)\mu(e)}{[d,e]}\log\left(\frac{U}{d}\right)\log\left(\frac{U}{e}\right)$,
$U>1$, so that a continuous, monotonic and explicit version of Selberg's sieve
can be stated.
  Thanks to Barban-Vehov (1968), Motohashi (1974) and Graham (1978), it has
been long known, but never explicitly, that $\Sigma_1(U)$ is asymptotic to
$\log(U)$. In this article, we discover not only that
$\Sigma_q(U)\sim\frac{q}{\varphi(q)}\log(U)$ for all $q\in\mathbb{Z}_{>0}$, but
also we find a closed-form expression for its secondary order term of
$\Sigma_q(U)$, a constant $\mathfrak{s}_q$, which we are able to estimate
explicitly when $q=v\in\{1,2\}$. We thus have $\Sigma_v(U)=
\frac{v}{\varphi(v)}\log(U)-\mathfrak{s}_v+O_v^*\left(\frac{K_v}{\log(U)}\right)$,
for some explicit constant $K_v > 0$, where $\mathfrak{s}_1=0.60731\ldots$ and
$\mathfrak{s}_2=1.4728\ldots$.
  As an application, we show how our result gives an explicit version of the
Brun-Titchmarsh theorem within a range.
