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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

Newtonian noise from seismic fields is predicted to become a sensitivity limiting noise contribution of the gravitational-wave detectors Advanced LIGO and Virgo in the next few years. It also plays a major role in the planning of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-04 F. Badaracco J. Harms

The sensitivity of an atom gradiometer aiming to detect gravitational waves (GW) is impacted by fluctuations of Earth's gravity field also called Newtonian Noise (NN). Sensor arrays have proved to be a promising technique for NN reduction.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-06-04 Q. Cojean Palassoé , A. Bertoldi , A. Landragin , B. Canuel

Fluctuations in the local Newtonian gravitational field present a limit to high precision measurements, including searches for gravitational waves using laser interferometers. In this work, we present a model of this perturbing…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-21 Jennifer C. Driggers , Jan Harms , Rana X. Adhikari

Gravitational wave detectors like the Einstein Telescope will be built a few hundred meters under Earth's surface to reduce both direct seismic and Newtonian noise. Underground facilities must be designed to take full advantage of the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-24 Florian Amann , Francesca Badaracco , Riccardo DeSalvo , Andrea Paoli , Luca Paoli , Paolo Ruggi , Stefano Selleri

In this article we propose a new method for reducing Newtonian noise in laser-interferometric gravitational-wave detectors located on the Earth's surface. We show that by excavating meter-scale recesses in the ground around the main test…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Jan Harms , Stefan Hild

Newtonian gravitational noise from seismic fields is predicted to be a limiting noise source at low frequency for second generation gravitational-wave detectors. Mitigation of this noise will be achieved by Wiener filtering using arrays of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2016-12-22 Michael Coughlin , Nikhil Mukund , Jan Harms , Jenne Driggers , Rana Adhikari , Sanjit Mitra

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a third-generation underground gravitational-wave observatory designed to extend the detection sensitivity down to a few Hertz. Newtonian noise is expected to limit the low-frequency sensitivity of ET,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Patrick Schillings , Shi Yao , Johannes Erdmann , Andreas Rietbrock

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

Terrestrial gravity noise, also known as Newtonian noise, produced by ambient seismic and infrasound fields will pose one of the main sensitivity limitations in low-frequency, ground-based, gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. It was…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-07-08 Jan Harms , Ho Jung Paik

Correlated noise could impact the search for the gravitational wave background at future Earth-based gravitational-wave detectors. Due to the small distance ($\sim$ 400 m) between the different interferometers of the Einstein Telescope,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-29 Kamiel Janssens , Guillaume Boileau , Nelson Christensen , Francesca Badaracco , Nick van Remortel

The cancellation of noise from terrestrial gravity fluctuations, also known as Newtonian noise (NN), in gravitational-wave detectors is a formidable challenge. Gravity fluctuations result from density perturbations associated with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-04 F Badaracco , J Harms , A Bertolini , T Bulik , I Fiori , B Idzkowski , A Kutynia , K Nikliborc , F Paoletti , A Paoli , L Rei , M Suchinski

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed third-generation gravitational-wave (GW) underground observatory. It will have greatly increased sensitivity compared to current GW detectors, and it is designed to extend the observation band down…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-02-28 Jan Harms , Luca Naticchioni , Enrico Calloni , Rosario De Rosa , Fulvio Ricci , Domenico D'Urso

The Einstein Telescope is the next-generation gravitational wave interferometer which, compared to current detectors, will enable the observation of gravitational signals at lower frequencies with a sensitivity improved by approximately two…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2025-08-12 Federico Armato , Barbara Garaventa , Andrea Chincarini

Newtonian noise (NN) from seismic density fluctuations is expected to limit the low-frequency sensitivity of third-generation gravitational-wave detectors, in particular the Einstein Telescope (ET). Current NN mitigation relies on…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-16 Paul Ophardt , Francesca Badaracco , Katharina-Sophie Isleif

A seismic array has been deployed at the Sanford Underground Research Facility in the former Homestake mine, South Dakota, to study the underground seismic environment. This includes exploring the advantages of constructing a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-19 Michael Coughlin , Jan Harms , Nelson Christensen , Vladimir Dergachev , Riccardo DeSalvo , Shivaraj Kandhasamy , Vuk Mandic

Advanced gravitational wave detectors, currently under construction, are expected to directly observe gravitational wave signals of astrophysical origin. The Einstein Telescope, a third-generation gravitational wave detector, has been…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-20 S. Hild , M. Abernathy , F. Acernese , P. Amaro-Seoane , N. Andersson , K. Arun , F. Barone , B. Barr , M. Barsuglia , M. Beker , N. Beveridge , S. Birindelli , S. Bose , L. Bosi , S. Braccini , C. Bradaschia , T. Bulik , E. Calloni , G. Cella , E. Chassande Mottin , S. Chelkowski , A. Chincarini , J. Clark , E. Coccia , C. Colacino , J. Colas , A. Cumming , L. Cunningham , E. Cuoco , S. Danilishin , K. Danzmann , R. De Salvo , T. Dent , R. De Rosa , L. Di Fiore , A. Di Virgilio , M. Doets , V. Fafone , P. Falferi , R. Flaminio , J. Franc , F. Frasconi , A. Freise , D. Friedrich , P. Fulda , J. Gair , G. Gemme , E. Genin , A. Gennai , A. Giazotto , K. Glampedakis , C. Gräf , M. Granata , H. Grote , G. Guidi , A. Gurkovsky , G. Hammond , M. Hannam , J. Harms , D. Heinert , M. Hendry , I. Heng , E. Hennes , J. Hough , S. Husa , S. Huttner , G. Jones , F. Khalili , K. Kokeyama , K. Kokkotas , B. Krishnan , T. G. F. Li , M. Lorenzini , H. Lück , E. Majorana , I. Mandel , V. Mandic , M. Mantovani , I. Martin , C. Michel , Y. Minenkov , N. Morgado , S. Mosca , B Mours , H. Müller-Ebhardt , P. Murray , R. Nawrodt , J. Nelson , R. Oshaughnessy , C. D. Ott , C. Palomba , A. Paoli , G. Parguez , A. Pasqualetti , R. Passaquieti , D. Passuello , L. Pinard , W. Plastino , R. Poggiani1 , P. Popolizio , M. Prato , M. Punturo , P. Puppo , D. Rabeling , P. Rapagnani , J. Read , T. Regimbau , H. Rehbein , S. Reid , F. Ricci , F. Richard , A. Rocchi , S. Rowan , A. Rüdiger , L. Santamaría , B. Sassolas , B. Sathyaprakash , R. Schnabel , C. Schwarz , P. Seidel , A. Sintes , K. Somiya , F. Speirits , K. Strain , S Strigin , P. Sutton , S. Tarabrin , A. Thüring , J. van den Brand , M. van Veggel , C. van den Broeck , A. Vecchio , J. Veitch , F. Vetrano , A. Vicere , S. Vyatchanin , B. Willke , G. Woan , K. Yamamoto

Using quasi-Newton methods in stochastic optimization is not a trivial task given the difficulty of extracting curvature information from the noisy gradients. Moreover, pre-conditioning noisy gradient observations tend to amplify the noise.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2024-04-02 Andre Carlon , Luis Espath , Raul Tempone

We report correlations in underground seismic measurements with horizontal separations of several hundreds of meters to a few kilometers in the frequency range 0.01Hz to 40Hz. These seismic correlations could threaten science goals of…

Advanced gravitational-wave detector designs are pushing towards lower frequencies, where certain types of noise, previously considered negligible, may come to dominate the detectors' noise budgets. In particular, we revisit atmospheric…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-12 Wenhui Wang , Teviet Creighton
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