Einstein Telescope, the pioneer project for a third-generation GW observatory in Europe: science, technologies and perspectives

Michele Punturo

doi:10.1117/12.2636963

30 May 2022 Einstein Telescope, the pioneer project for a third-generation GW observatory in Europe: science, technologies and perspectives

Michele Punturo

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Proceedings Volume PC12139, Optical Sensing and Detection VII; PC1213904 (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2636963
Event: SPIE Photonics Europe, 2022, Strasbourg, France

Abstract

Einstein Telescope (ET) is the pioneer project aiming to the realisation of a 3rd generation Gravitational Wave Observatory in Europe. Benefiting of the momentum given by the scientific successes of the LIGO and Virgo detectors, the ET project had, in the last few years, an important boost toward its realisation, entering in many of the national and international roadmaps. ET will be simultaneously a new discovery and a precision measurement observatory; it has a rich variety of scientific and multidisciplinary targets in astrophysics, nuclear physics, fundamental physics and cosmology. ET will be also a technological challenge: in order to achieve the expected sensitivity a new underground research infrastructure will be realised, a multi-interferometer per detector design will be implemented hosting new or updated technologies studied to reduce the noises limiting the current detectors. An overview of the science targets, of the observatory design, of the needed technologies and of the ET project organisation will be presented.

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Michele Punturo "Einstein Telescope, the pioneer project for a third-generation GW observatory in Europe: science, technologies and perspectives", Proc. SPIE PC12139, Optical Sensing and Detection VII, PC1213904 (30 May 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2636963

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