Branchesi, Marica;
Maggiore, Michele;
Alonso, David;
Badger, Charles;
Banerjee, Biswajit;
Beirnaert, Freija;
Belgacem, Enis;
... Zhang, Teng; + view all
(2023)
Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
, 2023
(07)
, Article 068. 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/07/068.
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Abstract
The Einstein Telescope (ET), the European project for a third-generation gravitational-wave detector, has a reference configuration based on a triangular shape consisting of three nested detectors with 10 km arms, where each detector has a 'xylophone' configuration made of an interferometer tuned toward high frequencies, and an interferometer tuned toward low frequencies and working at cryogenic temperature. Here, we examine the scientific perspectives under possible variations of this reference design. We perform a detailed evaluation of the science case for a single triangular geometry observatory, and we compare it with the results obtained for a network of two L-shaped detectors (either parallel or misaligned) located in Europe, considering different choices of arm-length for both the triangle and the 2L geometries. We also study how the science output changes in the absence of the low-frequency instrument, both for the triangle and the 2L configurations. We examine a broad class of simple 'metrics' that quantify the science output, related to compact binary coalescences, multi-messenger astronomy and stochastic backgrounds, and we then examine the impact of different detector designs on a more specific set of scientific objectives.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Science with the Einstein Telescope: a comparison of different designs |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1088/1475-7516/2023/07/068 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2023/07/068 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of Sissa Medialab. Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
| Keywords: | gravitational wave detectors, gravitational waves /experiments, gravitational waves / sources |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Physics and Astronomy |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10174780 |
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