The US Program in Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Science: Contribution from the LIGO Laboratory
Abstract
Recent gravitational-wave observations from the LIGO and Virgo observatories have brought a sense of great excitement to scientists and citizens the world over. Since September 2015,10 binary black hole coalescences and one binary neutron star coalescence have been observed. They have provided remarkable, revolutionary insight into the "gravitational Universe" and have greatly extended the field of multi-messenger astronomy. At present, Advanced LIGO can see binary black hole coalescences out to redshift 0.6 and binary neutron star coalescences to redshift 0.05. This probes only a very small fraction of the volume of the observable Universe. However, current technologies can be extended to construct " Generation" (3G) gravitational-wave observatories that would extend our reach to the very edge of the observable Universe. The event rates over such a large volume would be in the hundreds of thousands per year (i.e.tens per hour). Such 3G detectors would have a 10-fold improvement in strain sensitivity over the current generation of instruments, yielding signal-to-noise ratios of 1000 for events like those already seen. Several concepts are being studied for which engineering studies and reliable cost estimates will be developed in the next 5 years.
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@article{arxiv.1903.04615,
title = {The US Program in Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Science: Contribution from the LIGO Laboratory},
author = {David Reitze and Rich Abbott and Carl Adams and Rana Adhikari and Nancy Aggarwal and Shreya Anand and Alena Ananyeva and Stuart Anderson and Stephen Appert and Koji Arai and Melody Araya and Stuart Aston and Juan Barayoga and Barry Barish and David Barker and Lisa Barsotti and Jeffrey Bartlett and Joseph Betzwieser and GariLynn Billingsley and Sebastien Biscans and Sylvia Biscoveanu and Kent Blackburn and Carl Blair and Ryan Blair and Brian Bockelman and Rolf Bork and Alyssa Bramley and Aidan Brooks and Sharon Brunett and Aaron Buikema and Craig Cahillane and Thomas Callister and Tom Carruthers and Filiberto Clara and Paul Corban and Michael Coughlin and Peter Couvares and Matthew Cowart and Dennis Coyne and Nicholas Demos and Fred Donovan and Jenne Driggers and Sheila Dwyer and Anamaria Effler and Robert Eisenstein and Todd Etzel and Matthew Evans and Tom Evans and Jon Feicht and Alvaro Fernandez-Galiana and Peter Fritschel and Valery Frolov and Michael Fyffe and Bubba Gateley and Joe Giaime and Dwayne Giardina and Evan Goetz and Sarah Gossan and Slawomir Gras and Philippe Grassia and Corey Gray and Anchal Gupta and Eric Gustafson and Les Guthman and Evan Hall and Jonathan Hanks and Joe Hanson and Raine Hasskew and Carl-Johan Haster and Matthew Heintze and Edgar Hernandez and Kathy Holt and Yiwen Huang and Tien Huynh-Dinh and Max Isi and Jeff Jones and Brittany Kamai and Jonah Kanner and Marie Kasprzack and Erik Katsavounidis and William Katzman and Keita Kawabe and Peter King and Jeffrey Kissel and Veronica Kondrashov and William Korth and Dan Kozak and Rahul Kumar and Michael Landry and Benjamin Lane and Robert Lanza and Michael Laxen and Albert Lazzarini and Yannick Lecoeuche and Ken Libbrecht and Ka-Lok Lo and Lionel London and Marc Lormand and Myron MacInnis and Georgia Mansell and Aaron Markowitz and Ed Maros and Jay Marx and Ken Mason and Thomas Massinger and Fabrice Matichard and Nergis Mavalvala and Richard McCarthy and Scott McCormick and Lee McCuller and Jessica McIver and Gregory Mendell and Edmond Merilh and Syd Meshkov and Richard Mittleman and Dan Moraru and Gerardo Moreno and Adam Mullavey and Timothy Nelson and Kwan-Yeung Ng and Minkyun Noh and Brian O'Reilly and Jason Oberling and Richard Oram and Charles Osthelder and Harry Overmier and William Parker and Mike Pedraza and Arnaud Pele and Carlos Perez and Danielle Petterson and Marc Pirello and Fred Raab and Hugh Radkins and Satyanarayan Ray Pitambar Mohapatra and Jonathan Richardson and Norna Robertson and Jameson Rollins and Chandra Romel and Janeen Romie and Kyle Ryan and Travis Sadecki and Eduardo Sanchez and Luis Sanchez and Richard Savage and Dean Schaetzl and Danny Sellers and Thomas Shaffer and David Shoemaker and Daniel Sigg and Amber Strunk and Vivishek Sudhir and Ling Sun and Duo Tao and Robert Taylor and Michael Thomas and Patrick Thomas and Keith Thorne and Calum Torrie and Gary Traylor and Randy Trudeau and Maggie Tse and Gabriele Vajente and Steve Vass and Gautam Venugopalan and Salvatore Vitale and Cheryl Vorvick and Andrew Wade and Larry Wallace and Jim Warner and Betsy Weaver and Alan Weinstein and Rainer Weiss and Stan Whitcomb and Chris Whittle and Joshua Willis and Christopher Wipf and Sophia Xiao and Hiro Yamamoto and Hang Yu and Haocun Yu and Liyuan Zhang and Michael Zucker and John Zweizig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.04615},
year = {2019}
}
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For the 2020 Astro decadal