Punturo, M. and De Salvo, R. and Ott, C. D. and Somiya, K. (2010) The third generation of gravitational wave observatories and their science reach. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 27 (8). Art. No. 084007. ISSN 0264-9381. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20101025-092224594
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Large gravitational wave interferometric detectors, like Virgo and LIGO, demonstrated the capability to reach their design sensitivity, but to transform these machines into an effective observational instrument for gravitational wave astronomy a large improvement in sensitivity is required. Advanced detectors in the near future and third-generation observatories in more than one decade will open the possibility to perform gravitational wave astronomical observations from the Earth. An overview of the possible science reaches and the technological progress needed to realize a third-generation observatory are discussed in this paper. The status of the project Einstein Telescope (ET), a design study of a third-generation gravitational wave observatory, will be reported.
|Additional Information:||© 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd. Received 12 November 2009, in final form 12 January 2010. Published 6 April 2010. This work has been performed with the support of the European Commission under the Framework Programme 7 (FP7) ‘Capacities’, project Einstein Telescope (ET) design study (Grant Agreement 211743) (http://www.et-gw.eu/).|
|Subject Keywords:||Instrumentation and measurement; Gravitation and cosmology; Astrophysics and astroparticles|
|Classification Code:||PACS: 04.80.Nn. MSC: 83C35.|
|Official Citation:||M Punturo et al 2010 Class. Quantum Grav. 27 084007. doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/27/8/084007|
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|Deposited By:||Tony Diaz|
|Deposited On:||17 Nov 2010 17:47|
|Last Modified:||26 Dec 2012 12:32|
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