Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso · Gran Sasso Science Institute · +57 more institutions
Abstract
Abstract The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape consisting of three nested detectors with 10 km arms, where each detector has a 'xylophone' configuration made of an interferometer tuned toward high frequencies, and an interferometer tuned toward low frequencies and working at cryogenic temperature. Here, we examine the scientific perspectives under possible variations of this reference design. We perform a detailed evaluation of the science case for a single triangular geometry observatory, and we compare it with the results obtained for a network of two L-shaped detectors (either parallel…
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Authors
76- MBM. BranchesiCorresponding
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Gran Sasso Science Institute
- MMMichele MaggioreCorresponding
University of Geneva
- DADavid Alonso
University of Oxford
- CBC. Badger
University of London, King's College London, University College London
- BBB. Banerjee
Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Laboratori Nazionali del Gran Sasso, Gran Sasso Science Institute
Topics & keywords
- Physics
- Detector
- Einstein Telescope
- Telescope
- Interferometry
- Observatory
- Gravitational wave
- Binary number