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Gravitational radiation is an excellent field for testing theories of gravity in strong gravitational fields. The current observations on the gravitational-wave (GW) bursts by LIGO have already placed various constraints on the alternative…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-06-14 Xing Zhang , Jiming Yu , Tan Liu , Wen Zhao , Anzhong Wang

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,…

Future GW detector networks and EM observatories will provide a unique opportunity to observe the most luminous events in the Universe involving matter in extreme environs. They will address some of the key questions in physics and…

Gravitational wave (GW) experiments have transformed our understanding of the Universe by enabling direct observations of compact object mergers and other astrophysical phenomena. This chapter reviews the concepts of GW detectors, such as…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-10-02 Elisa Bigongiari , Matteo Di Giovanni , Giovanni Losurdo

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…

We present the astrophysical science case for a space-based, decihertz gravitational-wave (GW) detector. We particularly highlight an ability to infer a source's sky location, both when combined with a network of ground-based detectors to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-08-12 Kevin A. Kuns , Hang Yu , Yanbei Chen , Rana X Adhikari

We introduce \textit{SeismoGPT}, a transformer-based model for forecasting three-component seismic waveforms in the context of future gravitational wave detectors like the Einstein Telescope. The model is trained in an autoregressive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Waleed Esmail , Alexander Kappes , Stuart Russell , Christine Thomas

In order to test the Einstein gravitation theory (EGT) we compare their predictions with the measured results in the following phenomena: the perihelion advance of planets, deflection of light, radar echo delays around the Sun and an…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-07-02 M. Cattani

Around the globe several observatories are seeking the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These waves are predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity [Einstein, A., Annalen der Physik 49, 769-822 (1916)] and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

The electromagnetic (EM) emission associated with a gravitational wave (GW) signal is one of the main goal of future astronomy. Merger of neutron stars and/or black holes and core-collapse of massive stars are expected to cause rapid…

Since 2005 ESO has been working with its community and industry to develop an extremely large optical/infrared telescope. ESO's Extremely Large Telescope, or ELT for short, is a revolutionary ground-based telescope that will have a 39-metre…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-01 Paolo Padovani , Michele Cirasuolo , Remco van der Burg , Faustine Cantalloube , Elizabeth George , Markus Kasper , Kieran Leschinski , Carlos Martins , Julien Milli , Sabine Möhler , Mark Neeser , Benoit Neichel , Angel Otarola , Rubén Sánchez-Janssen , Benoit Serra , Alain Smette , Elena Valenti , Christophe Verinaud , Joël Vernet , Olivier Absil , Guido Agapito , Morten Andersen , Carmelo Arcidiacono , Matej Arko , Pierre Baudoz , Olivier Beltramo-Martin , Enrico Biancalani , Thomas Bierwirth , Leonard Burtscher , Giulia Carlà , Julio A. Castro-Almazán , Anne-Laure Cheffot , Lodovico Coccato , Carlos Correia , Romain Fetick , Giuliana Fiorentino , Thierry Fusco , Begoña García-Lorenzo , Nicola Gentile Fusillo , Oscar Gonzalez , Andrea Grazian , Marco Gullieuszik , Olivier Hainaut , Valentin Ivanov , Melanie Kaasinen , Darshan Kaddad , Tomasz Kamiński , Wolfgang Kausch , Florian Kerber , Stefan Kimeswenger , Rosita Kokotanekova , Arseniy Kuznetsov , Alexis Lau , Miska Le Louarn , Frédéric Lemmel , Jochen Liske , Gaspare Lo Curto , David Lucsanyi , Lars Lundin , Stefan Noll , Sylvain Oberti , James Osborn , Elena Masciadri , Dinko Milaković , Michael T. Murphy , Fernando Pedichini , Miguel Pereira Santaella , Roberto Piazzesi , Javier Piqueras López , Cédric Plantet , Thibaut Prod'homme , Norbert Przybilla , Mathieu Puech , Derryck T. Reid , Ansgar Reiners , Rutger Rijnenberg , Myriam Rodrigues , Fabio Rossi , Laurence Routledge , Hans Smit , Mathias Tecza , Niranjan Thatte , Roy van Boekel , Aprajita Verma , Arthur Vigan

The current network of gravitational wave detectors has already revealed hundreds of compact binary coalescences (CBCs), including binary neutron stars, binary black holes, and black hole-neutron star systems. As detector sensitivity…

Full sky coverage with 30-40 meter-class telescopes is essential to answer fundamental questions in Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Physics, such as the composition of the Universe and the formation of the first stars and supermassive black…

The recent breakthroughs regarding the detection of compact binary mergers via gravitational waves opened up a new window to the Universe. Gravitational-wave models have been essential to this success since they are necessary to infer the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-15 Adrian Abac , Anna Puecher , Jonathan Gair , Tim Dietrich

Modern multimessenger astronomy delivers unique opportunity for performing crucial observations that allow for testing the physics of the gravitational interaction. These tests include detection of gravitational waves by advanced LIGO-Virgo…

General Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Yurij Baryshev

Within the next decade gravitational-wave (GW) observations by Advanced LIGO in the United States, Advanced Virgo and GEO HF in Europe, and possibly other ground-based instruments will provide unprecedented opportunities to look directly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-17 Benjamin J. Owen

In the future, the third generation (3G) gravitational wave (GW) detectors, exemplified by the Einstein Telescope (ET), will be operational. The detection rate of GW from binary neutron star (BNS) is expected to reach approximately $10^4$…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-25 Cunliang Ma , Xinyao Yu , Zhoujian Cao , Mingzhen Jia

The expected volume of data from the third-generation gravitational waves (GWs) Einstein Telescope (ET) detector would make traditional GWs search methods such as match filtering impractical. This is due to the large template bank required…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-04 Wathela Alhassan , Tomasz Bulik , Mariusz Suchenek

We summarise the science cases for an ELT that were presented in the parallel session on the intergalactic medium, and the open discussion that followed the formal presentations. Observations of the IGM with an ELT provides tremendous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Tom Theuns , Raghunathan Srianand

The sensitivity and the frequency bandwidth of third-generation gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are such that the Newtonian noise (NN) signals produced by atmospheric turbulence could become relevant. We build models for atmospheric NN…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-10-05 Davide Brundu , Mariano Cadoni , Mauro Oi , Piero Olla , Andrea Pierfrancesco Sanna