Cosmic Explorer: The U.S. Contribution to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy beyond LIGO
By D. Reitze, Rana X. Adhikari, S. Ballmer, Barry C. Barish, L. Barsotti, G. Billingsley, Duncan A. Brown, Yanbei Chen, D. Coyne, R. Eisenstein and 14 more. 2019
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This white paper describes the research and development needed over the next decade to realize "Cosmic Explorer," the U.S. node of a future third-generation detector network that will be capable of observing and characterizing compact gravitational-wave sources to cosmological redshifts.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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- A cryogenic silicon interferometer for gravitational-wave detection (2020, methodology): “Much of the R&D required for LIGO Voyager has been ongoing for several years to support the cryogenic KAGRA and Einstein Telescope designs, and will also be applicable to the Cosmic Explorer design [130].”
- AION: an atom interferometer observatory and network (2019, background): “les (SMBHs), several of which pass through the formation and mergers of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (IMBHs), with some IMBHs left over at low redshifts. Figure taken from [59]. Cosmic Explorer (CE) [56] experiments. Operating in a similar frequency range & few Hz, these experiments will improv”
- Rates of compact object coalescences (2021, background): “The merger rates determine prospects for future Earth-based and space-borne gravitational-wave detectors, and will impact detector design (Adhikari et al., 2019; Reitze et al., 2019; Amaro-Seoane et al., 2017).”
- Unveiling the gravitational universe at μ-Hz frequencies (2019, background): “Explorer (CE, [214]), will detect millions of stellar-origin compact object (CO) binaries (BHBs, NSBs, and NS-BH binaries) out to z > 10.”
- AEDGE: Atomic Experiment for Dark Matter and Gravity Exploration in Space (2019, methodology): “smology. Additional GW experiments are now being prepared and proposed, including upgrades of LIGO [3] and Virgo [4], KAGRA [5], INDIGO [6], the Einstein Telescope (ET) [7,8] and Cosmic Explorer (CE) [9], which will provide greater sensitivities in a similar frequency range to the current LIGO and V”