Ground-based gravitational-wave detection: now and future
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- Whitcomb, Stanley E.
Abstract
In the past three years, the first generation of large gravitational-wave interferometers has begun operation near their design sensitivities, taking up the mantle from the bar detectors that pioneered the search for the first direct detection of gravitational waves. Even as the current ground-based interferometers were reaching their design sensitivities, plans were being laid for the future. Advances in technology and lessons learned from the first generation devices have pointed the way to an order of magnitude improvement in sensitivity, as well as expanded frequency ranges and the capability to tailor the sensitivity band to address particular astrophysical sources. Advanced cryogenic acoustic detectors, the successors to the current bar detectors, are being researched and may play a role in the future, particularly at the higher frequencies. One of the most important trends is the growing international cooperation aimed at building a truly global network. In this paper, I survey the state of the various detectors as of mid-2007, and outline the prospects for the future.
Additional Information
Copyright © Institute of Physics and IOP Publishing Limited 2008. Received 2 December 2007, in final form 2 March 2008. Published 15 May 2008. Print publication: Issue 11 (7 June 2008). I would like to thank the Gravitational Wave International Committee (GWIC), the scientific organizing committee for the Amaldi meetings, for the invitation to give this talk. As with any talk which summarizes such a broad field, I cannot list all of the individuals who contributed to the work described here, nor even all who contributed to the material I have presented. But you know who you are, so do I, and I thank you. Of course, all responsibility for the oversimplifications, the omissions and the out-right errors contained herein falls on my shoulders. I gratefully acknowledge the support of the National Science Foundation under cooperative agreement no. PHY-0107417. GRG18 PLENARY TALK. Special Issue: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on General Relativity and Gravitation (GRG18) and 7th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi7), Sydney, Australia, July 2007 http://www.iop.org/EJ/toc/0264-9381/25/11Files
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