The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach

Author(s): MIchele Punturo, Matt Abernathy, Fausto Acernese, Bruce Allen, Nils Andersson, K. G. Arun, Fabrizio Barone, Bryan Barr, Matteo Barsuglia, Mark Beker, Nicola Beveridge, Simona Birindelli, Susmita Bose, Leone Bosi, Stefano Braccini, Carlo Bradaschia, Tomasz Bulik, Enrico Calloni, Giancarlo Cella, Éric Chassande-Mottin, Simon Chelkowski, Andrea Chincarini, James Clark, Eugenio Coccia, Carlo Nicola Colacino, Jacques Colas, Alan Cumming, Liam Cunningham, Elena Cuoco, Stefan Danilishin, Karsten Danzmann, Gammaitoni De Luca, Riccardo De Salvo, Thomas Dent, Rosario De Rosa, Luciano Di Fiore, Angela Di Virgilio, Martin Doets, Viviana Fafone, Paolo Falferi, Raffaele Flaminio, Janyce Franc, Franco Frasconi, Andreas Freise, Paul Fulda, Jonathan Gair, Gianluca Gemme, Alberto Gennai, Adalberto Giazotto, Kostas Glampedakis, Massimo Granata, Hartmut Grote, Gianluca Guidi, Giles D. Hammond, Mark Hannam, Jan Harms, Daniel Heinert, Martin Hendry, Ik Siong Heng, Eric Hennes, Stefan Hild, James Hough, Sascha Husa, Sabina Huttner, Gareth Jones, Farit Khalili, Keiko Kokeyama, Konstantinos Kokkotas, Badri Krishnan, Matteo Lorenzini, Harald Lück, Ettore Majorana, Ilya Mandel, Vuk Mandic, Iain W. Martin, Christophe Michel, Yury Minenkov, Nazario Morgado, Simona Mosca, Benoît Mours, Helge Müller-Ebhardt, Peter Murray, Ronny Nawrodt, John Nelson, Richard O'Shaughnessy, Christian David Ott, Cristiano Palomba, Andrea Paoli, Gaelle Parguez, Antonio Pasqualetti, Roberto Passaquieti, Diego Passuello, Laurent Pinard, Rosa Poggiani, Pasquale Popolizio, Mirko Prato, Paola Puppo, David Rabeling, Piero Rapagnani, Jocelyn Read, Tania Regimbau, Henning Rehbein, Stuart Reid, Luciano Rezzolla, Fulvio Ricci, Frédéric Richard, Alessio Rocchi, Sheila Rowan, Albrecht Rüdiger, Benoit Sassolas, Bangalore Sathyaprakash, Roman Schnabel, Christian Schwarz, P. Seidel, Alicia Sintes, Kentaro Somiya, Fiona Speirits, Kenneth Strain, Sergey Strigin, Patrick Sutton, Sergey Tarabrin, Johannes van den Brand, C. van Leewen, Mariëlle van Veggel, Chris van den Broeck, Alberto Vecchio, John Veitch, Flavio Vetrano, Andrea Vicere, Sergey P. Vyatchanin, Benno Wilke, Graham Woan, P. Wolfango, Kazuhiro Yamamoto
Abstract: Large gravitational wave interferometric detectors, like Virgo and LIGO, demonstrated the capability to reach their design sensitivity, but to transform these machines into an effective observational instrument for gravitational wave astronomy a large improvement in sensitivity is required. Advanced detectors in the near future and third-generation observatories in more than one decade will open the possibility to perform gravitational wave astronomical observations from the Earth. An overview of the possible science reaches and the technological progress needed to realize a third-generation observatory are discussed in this paper. The status of the project Einstein Telescope (ET), a design study of a third-generation gravitational wave observatory, will be reported.
Organisation(s): Gravitational Physics
External organisation(s): Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Roma, University of Glasgow, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert Einstein Institut), University of Southampton, Centre National De La Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris VII - Paris-Diderot, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Université Côte d'Azur, Washington State University, University of Warsaw, University of Birmingham, Cardiff University, European Gravitational Observatory, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), University of Cambridge, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, University of the Balearic Islands, Northwestern University, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Montpellier, Pennsylvania State University, Université Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, Università Degli Studi Roma Tre, Università degli Studi di Urbino "Carlo Bo", University of Florence
No. of pages: 23
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084007
Publication date: 2010
Austrian Fields of Science 2012: 103036 Theoretical physics
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