A Cryogenic Silicon Interferometer for Gravitational-wave Detection
Authors: 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
Abstract: 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 facilities, we have designed a new instrument that will have 5 times the range of Advanced LIGO, or greater than 100 times the event rate. Observations with this new instrument will make possible dramatic steps toward understanding the physics of the nearby universe, as well as observing the universe out to cosmological distances by the detection of binary black hole coalescences. This article presents the instrument design and a quantitative analysis of the anticipated noise floor.
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