This white paper describes the research and development needed over the next decade to realize "Cosmic Explorer," the U.S. node of a future third-generation detector network that will be capable of observing and characterizing compact gravitational-wave sources to cosmological redshifts.
@article{arxiv.1907.04833,
title = {Cosmic Explorer: The U.S. Contribution to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy beyond LIGO},
author = {David Reitze and Rana X Adhikari and Stefan Ballmer and Barry Barish and Lisa Barsotti and GariLynn Billingsley and Duncan A. Brown and Yanbei Chen and Dennis Coyne and Robert Eisenstein and Matthew Evans and Peter Fritschel and Evan D. Hall and Albert Lazzarini and Geoffrey Lovelace and Jocelyn Read and B. S. Sathyaprakash and David Shoemaker and Joshua Smith and Calum Torrie and Salvatore Vitale and Rainer Weiss and Christopher Wipf and Michael Zucker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.04833},
year = {2019}
}
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Astro2020 Decadal Survey ground-based technology development white paper