A Cryogenic Silicon Interferometer for Gravitational-wave Detection
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2020-08-26 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Instrumentation and Detectors
Abstract
The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by LIGO has opened the era of gravitational wave astronomy, revealing a previously hidden side of the cosmos. To maximize the reach of the existing LIGO observatory facilities, we have designed a new instrument that will have 5 times the range of Advanced LIGO, or greater than 100 times the event rate. Observations with this new instrument will make possible dramatic steps toward understanding the physics of the nearby universe, as well as observing the universe out to cosmological distances by the detection of binary black hole coalescences. This article presents the instrument design and a quantitative analysis of the anticipated noise floor.
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@article{arxiv.2001.11173,
title = {A Cryogenic Silicon Interferometer for Gravitational-wave Detection},
author = {Rana X Adhikari and Odylio Aguiar and Koji Arai and Bryan Barr and Riccardo Bassiri and Garilynn Billingsley and Ross Birney and David Blair and Joseph Briggs and Aidan F Brooks and Daniel D Brown and Huy-Tuong Cao and Marcio Constancio and Sam Cooper and Thomas Corbitt and Dennis Coyne and Edward Daw and Johannes Eichholz and Martin Fejer and Andreas Freise and Valery Frolov and Slawomir Gras and Anna Green and Hartmut Grote and Eric K Gustafson and Evan D Hall and Giles Hammond and Jan Harms and Gregg Harry and Karen Haughian and Frances Hellman and Jan-Simon Hennig and Margot Hennig and Stefan Hild and Warren Johnson and Brittany Kamai and Disha Kapasi and Kentaro Komori and Mikhail Korobko and Kevin Kuns and Brian Lantz and Sean Leavey and Fabian Magana-Sandoval and Ashot Markosyan and Iain Martin and Rodica Martin and Denis V Martynov and David Mcclelland and Graeme Mcghee and Joseph Mills and Valery Mitrofanov and Manel Molina-Ruiz and Conor Mow-Lowry and Peter Murray and Sebastian Ng and Leonid Prokhorov and Volker Quetschke and Stuart Reid and David Reitze and Jonathan Richardson and Raymond Robie and Isobel Romero-Shaw and Sheila Rowan and Roman Schnabel and Merle Schneewind and Brett Shapiro and David Shoemaker and Bram Slagmolen and Joshua Smith and Jessica Steinlechner and Simon Tait and David Tanner and Calum Torrie and Joris Vanheijningen and Peter Veitch and Gavin Wallace and Peter Wessels and Benno Willke and Christopher Wipf and Hiro Yamamoto and Chunnong Zhao and Lisa Barsotti and Robert Ward and Angus Bell and Robert Byer and Andrew Wade and William Z Korth and Frank Seifert and Nicholas Smith and Dimitry Koptsov and Zeno Tornasi and Aaron Markowitz and Georgia Mansell and Terry Mcrae and Paul Altin and Min J Yap and Marielle Van Veggel and Graeme Eddolls and Edgard Bonilla and Elvis C Ferreira and Allan S Silva and Marcos A Okada and Diego Taira and Daniel Heinert and James Hough and Ken Strain and Alan Cumming and Roger Route and Daniel Shaddock and Matthew Evans and Rainer Weiss},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.11173},
year = {2020}
}