Cosmic Explorer: The U.S. Contribution to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy beyond LIGO
by 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, B. S. Sathyaprakash, David Shoemaker, Joshua Smith, Calum Torrie, Salvatore Vitale, Rainer Weiss, Christopher Wipf, and Michael Zucker
Published onSep 30, 2019
Cosmic Explorer: The U.S. Contribution to Gravitational-Wave Astronomy beyond LIGO
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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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