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Colloquium – Stefan Ballmer, Syracuse
Building the Next Terrestrial Gravitational Wave Detectors
The newly released O3a Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog from the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo for the first time provides a non-trivial sample of actual gravitational-wave sources. Thus for the first time we can design the next-generation detectors with good guidance on the observable signals.
This talk will discuss the latest results, and then focus on the detector technology currently used in Advanced LIGO, its sensitivity limitations and the plans for the next-generation detectors Cosmic Explorer and Einstein Telescope. In partiucular, it will highlight the technology developments needed for those detectors.
Host: Paul Fulda