Cosmic Explorer: The U.S. Contribution to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy beyond LIGO

2019/07/10 by David Reitze, Rana X Adhikari, Stefan Ballmer +21 · 13 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #astro-ph.IM #gr-qc

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published as 2019 BAAS 51(7) 035 · Astro2020 Decadal Survey ground-based technology development white paper

arxiv created 2019/07/10 · arxiv updated 2019/11/26

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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