English
Related papers

Related papers: Site-selection criteria for the Einstein Telescope

200 papers

The Einstein Telescope (ET) has been proposed as one of the third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors. The sensitivity of ET would be a factor of 10 better than the second-generation GW detector, Advanced LIGO (aLIGO); thus, the GW…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-03-30 Hee-Suk Cho

The Einstein Telescope (ET), along with other third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors, will be a key instrument for detecting GWs in the coming decades. However, analyzing the data and estimating source parameters will be…

Seismic Newtonian noise is predicted to limit the sensitivity of the Einstein Telescope. It can be reduced with coherent noise cancellation techniques using data from seismometers. To achieve the best results, it is important to place the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-11-15 Francesca Badaracco , Jan Harms , Luca Rei

Standard siren cosmology of gravitational wave (GW) merger events relies on the identification of host galaxies and their redshifts. But this can be highly challenging due to numerous candidates of galaxies in the GW localization area. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Hai Yu , Pengjie Zhang , Fa-Yin Wang

The multi-messenger gravitational-wave (GW) observation for binary neutron star merger events could provide a rather useful tool to explore the evolution of the universe. In particular, for the third-generation GW detectors, i.e., the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-27 Shang-Jie Jin , Rui-Qi Zhu , Ling-Feng Wang , Hai-Li Li , Jing-Fei Zhang , Xin Zhang

The Einstein Telescope is a third-generation underground gravitational wave observatory designed to achieve unprecedented sensitivity down to 3 Hz. Waves propagating in the soil due to anthropogenic or natural vibration sources generate…

Applied Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Pieter Reumers , Xhorxha Kuci , Stijn François , Geert Degrande

The workhorse instruments of the 8-10m class observatories have become their multi-object spectrographs (MOS), providing comprehensive follow-up to both ground-based and space-borne imaging. With the advent of deeper imaging surveys from,…

In this overview we discuss the prospects for a first detection of an isotropic gravitational wave background with earth-based interferometric detectors. Furthermore, we focus on how correlated noise sources could endanger such a detection…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-05-05 Kamiel Janssens

The next generation of gravitational-wave detectors, such as the Einstein Telescope, is designed to reduce noise in a wide band of frequencies compared to the current generation, through the use of new technologies. ETpathfinder, designed…

The analysis of long term seismological data collected underground in the M\'atra Mountains, Hungary, using the facilities of the M\'atra Gravitational and Geophysical Laboratory (MGGL) is reported. The laboratory is situated inside the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-20 L. Somlai , Z. Gráczer , M. Vasúth , Z. Wéber , P. Ván

The next generation ground-based extremely large telescopes (ELTs) present incredible opportunities to discover and characterize diverse planetary systems, even potentially habitable worlds. Adaptive-optics assisted thermal-IR (3-14 micron)…

Unlike the electromagnetic radiation from astrophysical objects, gravitational waves (GWs) from binary star mergers have much longer wavelengths and are coherent. For ground-based GW detectors, when the lens object between the source and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-06-05 Kai Liao , Shuxun Tian , Xuheng Ding

Detection of signals from a possible extrasolar technological civilization is one of the challenging efforts of science. In this work, we propose using natural telescopes made of single or binary gravitational lensing systems to magnify…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Sohrab Rahvar

The discovery of gravitational waves from merging compact objects has opened up a new window to the Universe. Planned third-generation gravitational-wave detectors such as Einstein Telescope will potentially deliver hundreds of such events…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 Sarp Akcay , Morgan Fraser , Antonio Martin-Carrillo

Global expansion of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) will see the strategic addition of antennas at new geographical locations, transforming the sensitivity and imaging fidelity of the $\lambda \sim 1$\,mm EHT array. A possible South…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-11 Senkhosi Simelane , Roger Deane , Athol Kemball , Roelf Botha , Roufurd Julie , Keitumetse Molamu , Adrian Tiplady , Aletha de Witt

The Einstein Probe (EP) is an interdisciplinary mission of time-domain and X-ray astronomy. Equipped with a wide-field lobster-eye X-ray focusing imager, EP will discover cosmic X-ray transients and monitor the X-ray variability of known…

We discuss the capability of a third-generation ground-based detector such as the Einstein Telescope (ET) to enhance our astrophysical knowledge through detections of gravitational waves emitted by binaries including intermediate-mass and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-13 Jonathan R. Gair , Ilya Mandel , M. Coleman Miller , Marta Volonteri

The discovery of gravitational waves, first observed in September 2015 following the merger of a binary black hole system, has already revolutionised our understanding of the Universe. This was further enhanced in August 2017, when the…

The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a project aimed at studying the magnetic connectivity of the solar atmosphere, from the deep photosphere to the upper chromosphere. Its design combines the knowledge and expertise gathered by the…

This paper highlights a methodological approach designed to enhance the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) by hypothesizing that a transmission technosignature would likely have two features: 1) be wideband in the microwave or…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Ross Davis