Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS New England Section 2018 Fall Meeting
Volume 63, Number 21
Friday–Saturday, November 2–3, 2018; University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts
Session B02: Banquet Speaker |
Hide Abstracts |
Room: LIBRARY Grand Reading Room |
Friday, November 2, 2018 8:00PM - 8:45PM |
B02.00001: The Scientific Potential of Third-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors Invited Speaker: Salvatore Vitale The discoveries of gravitational waves from binary black hole and binary neutron star coalescences suggest these sources will be observed in large numbers by currently operating advanced detectors. Thanks to these observations, individual systems and the underlying population can be characterized. However advanced detectors will only be sensitive to sources within a redshift of ~1. By contrast, the next generation of ground-based instruments, such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer, will access a large fraction of the universe. These observatories will, for example, detect 10^5 binary black holes per year, many of which with large signal-to-noise ratios, up to redshift of ~10. At the same time, these new instruments will significantly increase the probability of detecting rare or weak sources. In this talk I will describe the scientific potential of proposed third-generation gravitational-wave detectors. |
Follow Us |
Engage
Become an APS Member |
My APS
Renew Membership |
Information for |
About APSThe American Physical Society (APS) is a non-profit membership organization working to advance the knowledge of physics. |
© 2024 American Physical Society
| All rights reserved | Terms of Use
| Contact Us
Headquarters
1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740-3844
(301) 209-3200
Editorial Office
100 Motor Pkwy, Suite 110, Hauppauge, NY 11788
(631) 591-4000
Office of Public Affairs
529 14th St NW, Suite 1050, Washington, D.C. 20045-2001
(202) 662-8700