Site-selection criteria for the Einstein Telescope
Abstract
The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed next-generation, underground gravitational-wave (GW) detector to be based in Europe. It will provide about an order of magnitude sensitivity increase with respect to currently operating detectors, and furthermore, extend the observation band towards lower frequencies, i.e., down to about 3Hz. One of the first decisions that needs to be made is about the future ET site following an in-depth site characterization. Site evaluation and selection is a complicated process, which takes into account science, financial, political, and socio-economic criteria. In this paper, we provide an overview of the site-selection criteria for ET, provide a formalism to evaluate the direct impact of environmental noise on ET sensitivity, and outline the necessary elements of a site-characterization campaign.
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@article{arxiv.2003.03434,
title = {Site-selection criteria for the Einstein Telescope},
author = {Florian Amann and Fabio Bonsignorio and Tomasz Bulik and Henk Jan Bulten and Stefano Cuccuru and Alain Dassargues and Riccardo DeSalvo and Edit Fenyvesi and Francesco Fidecaro and Irene Fiori and Carlo Giunchi and Aniello Grado and Jan Harms and Soumen Koley and Laszlo Kovacs and Giovanni Losurdo and Vuk Mandic and Patrick Meyers and Luca Naticchioni and Frederic Nguyen and Giacomo Oggiano and Marco Olivieri and Federico Paoletti and Andrea Paoli and Wolfango Plastino and Massimiliano Razzano and Paolo Ruggi and Gilberto Saccorotti and Alicia M Sintes and Laszlo Somlai and Peter Van and Matyas Vasuth},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.03434},
year = {2020}
}
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22 pages, 3 figures