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A Cryogenic Silicon Interferometer for Gravitational-wave Detection

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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.

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© 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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2020-06-15
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