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Significant progress has been made in recent years on the development of gravitational wave detectors. Sources such as coalescing compact binary systems, neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries, stellar collapses and pulsars are all…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Matthew Pitkin , Stuart Reid , Sheila Rowan , Jim Hough

The reliability of the first detection is one of the most interesting challenges for the gravitational wave community. To increase the detection confidence, the LIGO and Virgo collaborations have already started coincident observations…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-12-02 Marco Drago

Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) was the first laboratory to measure the gravitational waves. It was needed an exceptional experimental design to measure distance changes much less than a radius of a proton. In the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-03-24 Gerson R. Santos , Marcela P. Figueiredo , Antonio de Pádua Santos , Pavlos Protopapas , Tiago A. E. Ferreira

We assess the science reach and technical feasibility of a satellite mission based on precision atomic sensors configured to detect gravitational radiation. Conceptual advances in the past three years indicate that a two-satellite…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran , Roger W. Romani

String cosmology models predict a relic background of gravitational wave produced during the dilaton-driven inflation. It's spectrum is most likely to be detected by ground gravitational wave laser interferometers (IFOs), like LIGO, Virgo,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Xi-Long Fan , Zong-Hong Zhu

Gravitational waves have predominantly been detected using interferometric techniques, with standard approaches limited to 10 kHz and with modern advancements extending this bound to 300 kHz. To explore the largely uncharted…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-01 Eduard Atonga , Ramy Aboushelbaya , Peter A. Norreys

The observed microwave background anisotropies in combination with the theory of quantum mechanically generated cosmological perturbations predict a well measurable amount of relic gravitational waves in the frequency intervals tested by…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-10-28 L. P. Grishchuk

The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by LIGO has opened the era of gravitational wave astronomy, revealing a previously hidden side of the cosmos. To maximize the reach of the existing LIGO observatory…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-26 Rana X Adhikari , Odylio Aguiar , Koji Arai , Bryan Barr , Riccardo Bassiri , Garilynn Billingsley , Ross Birney , David Blair , Joseph Briggs , Aidan F Brooks , Daniel D Brown , Huy-Tuong Cao , Marcio Constancio , Sam Cooper , Thomas Corbitt , Dennis Coyne , Edward Daw , Johannes Eichholz , Martin Fejer , Andreas Freise , Valery Frolov , Slawomir Gras , Anna Green , Hartmut Grote , Eric K Gustafson , Evan D Hall , Giles Hammond , Jan Harms , Gregg Harry , Karen Haughian , Frances Hellman , Jan-Simon Hennig , Margot Hennig , Stefan Hild , Warren Johnson , Brittany Kamai , Disha Kapasi , Kentaro Komori , Mikhail Korobko , Kevin Kuns , Brian Lantz , Sean Leavey , Fabian Magana-Sandoval , Ashot Markosyan , Iain Martin , Rodica Martin , Denis V Martynov , David Mcclelland , Graeme Mcghee , Joseph Mills , Valery Mitrofanov , Manel Molina-Ruiz , Conor Mow-Lowry , Peter Murray , Sebastian Ng , Leonid Prokhorov , Volker Quetschke , Stuart Reid , David Reitze , Jonathan Richardson , Raymond Robie , Isobel Romero-Shaw , Sheila Rowan , Roman Schnabel , Merle Schneewind , Brett Shapiro , David Shoemaker , Bram Slagmolen , Joshua Smith , Jessica Steinlechner , Simon Tait , David Tanner , Calum Torrie , Joris Vanheijningen , Peter Veitch , Gavin Wallace , Peter Wessels , Benno Willke , Christopher Wipf , Hiro Yamamoto , Chunnong Zhao , Lisa Barsotti , Robert Ward , Angus Bell , Robert Byer , Andrew Wade , William Z Korth , Frank Seifert , Nicholas Smith , Dimitry Koptsov , Zeno Tornasi , Aaron Markowitz , Georgia Mansell , Terry Mcrae , Paul Altin , Min J Yap , Marielle Van Veggel , Graeme Eddolls , Edgard Bonilla , Elvis C Ferreira , Allan S Silva , Marcos A Okada , Diego Taira , Daniel Heinert , James Hough , Ken Strain , Alan Cumming , Roger Route , Daniel Shaddock , Matthew Evans , Rainer Weiss

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

Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo could observe the first lensed gravitational waves in the coming years, while the future Einstein Telescope could observe hundreds of lensed events. Ground-based gravitational-wave detectors can resolve…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Giulia Pagano , Otto A. Hannuksela , Tjonnie G. F. Li

We propose a tunable resonant sensor to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range of 50-300 kHz using optically trapped and cooled dielectric microspheres or micro-discs. The technique we describe can exceed the sensitivity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Asimina Arvanitaki , Andrew A. Geraci

The sensitivity achievable by a pair of VIRGO detectors to stochastic and isotropic gravitational wave backgrounds of cosmological origin is discussed in view of the development of a second VIRGO interferometer. We describe a…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Babusci , M. Giovannini

Here I examine how to determine the sensitivity of the LIGO, VIRGO, and LAGOS gravitational wave detectors to sources of gravitational radiation by considering the process by which data are analyzed in a noisy detector. By constructing the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Lee Samuel Finn

Gravitational waves are radiative solutions of space-time dynamics predicted by Einstein's theory of General Relativity. A world-wide array of large-scale and highly sensitive interferometric detectors constantly scrutinizes the geometry of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-15 Eric Chassande-Mottin

We propose two distinct atom interferometer gravitational wave detectors, one terrestrial and another satellite-based, utilizing the core technology of the Stanford $10 \text{m}$ atom interferometer presently under construction. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-06-22 Savas Dimopoulos , Peter W. Graham , Jason M. Hogan , Mark A. Kasevich , Surjeet Rajendran

This is an expanded version of my talk given at the international conference "Zeldovich-90". I start with a brief recollection of interactions with Zeldovich in the context of the study of relic gravitational waves. I then summarise the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 L. P. Grishchuk

Experiments aimed at searching for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources have been under development for the last 40 years, but only now are sensitivities reaching the level where there is a real possibility of detections being…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-11 Jim Hough , Sheila Rowan , B. S. Sathyaprakash

Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo ground-based interferometers are instruments capable to detect gravitational wave signals exploiting advanced laser interferometry techniques. The underlying data analysis task consists in identifying…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-12-19 Francesco Pio Barone , Daniele Dell'Aquila , Marco Russo

Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are expected to make the first direct detections of gravitational waves (GW) in the next several years. Possible types of GW emission include short-duration bursts, signals from the coalescence of compact…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2019-08-15 C. Van Den Broeck

The first detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) in 2015 launched the era of gravitational wave astronomy. The quest for gravitational wave signals from objects that are fainter or…