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Published August 20, 2020 | Submitted
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A Cryogenic Silicon Interferometer for Gravitational-wave Detection

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

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 able to detect gravitational waves at distances 5 times further away than possible with Advanced LIGO, or at 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.

Additional Information

© 2020 IOP Publishing Ltd. Received 5 February 2020, revised 15 April 2020; Accepted for publication 7 May 2020; Published 28 July 2020. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under the LIGO cooperative agreement PHY-0757058. This paper has been assigned LIGO document number LIGO-P1800072.

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