Cosmic Explorer: The U.S. Contribution to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy beyond LIGO
David Reitze, Rana X Adhikari, Stefan Ballmer, Barry Barish, Lisa, Barsotti, GariLynn Billingsley, Duncan A. Brown, Yanbei Chen, Dennis Coyne,, Robert Eisenstein, Matthew Evans, Peter Fritschel, Evan D. Hall, Albert, Lazzarini, Geoffrey Lovelace, Jocelyn Read
TL;DR
This paper outlines the development plan for Cosmic Explorer, a next-generation U.S. gravitational-wave detector designed to observe distant cosmic sources and advance gravitational-wave astronomy beyond current capabilities.
Contribution
It presents a detailed research and development roadmap for building Cosmic Explorer, a third-generation gravitational-wave detector network.
Findings
Design specifications for Cosmic Explorer
Projected sensitivity improvements over current detectors
Potential scientific discoveries enabled by the new detector
Abstract
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.
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TopicsPulsars and Gravitational Waves Research