A Horizon Study for Cosmic Explorer: Science, Observatories, and Community

Autor: Evans, Matthew, Adhikari, Rana X, Afle, Chaitanya, Ballmer, Stefan W., Biscoveanu, Sylvia, Borhanian, Ssohrab, Brown, Duncan A., Chen, Yanbei, Eisenstein, Robert, Gruson, Alexandra, Gupta, Anuradha, Hall, Evan D., Huxford, Rachael, Kamai, Brittany, Kashyap, Rahul, Kissel, Jeff S., Kuns, Kevin, Landry, Philippe, Lenon, Amber, Lovelace, Geoffrey, McCuller, Lee, Ng, Ken K. Y., Nitz, Alexander H., Read, Jocelyn, Sathyaprakash, B. S., Shoemaker, David H., Slagmolen, Bram J. J., Smith, Joshua R., Srivastava, Varun, Sun, Ling, Vitale, Salvatore, Weiss, Rainer
Rok vydání: 2021
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Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: This Horizon Study describes a next-generation ground-based gravitational-wave observatory: Cosmic Explorer. With ten times the sensitivity of Advanced LIGO, Cosmic Explorer will push gravitational-wave astronomy towards the edge of the observable universe ($z \sim 100$). The goals of this Horizon Study are to describe and evaluate design concepts for Cosmic Explorer; to plan for the United States' leadership in gravitational-wave astronomy; and to envisage the role of Cosmic Explorer in the international effort to build a "Third-Generation" (3G) observatory network that will make discoveries transformative across astronomy, physics, and cosmology.
Comment: 173 pages
Databáze: arXiv