Cosmic Explorer
ORAL
Abstract
A central element of the future third-generation ground-based gravitational-wave network is Cosmic Explorer, or CE. With arm lengths tenfold that of LIGO's, CE's 40 km L-shaped interferometer will work in concert with Einstein Telescope and LIGO India to observe gravitational-wave sources across the history of the universe. In this talk we highlight elements of detector design and sketch the science case for the observatory, including measurements of mergers of black holes and neutron stars; detections of kilonovae, jets and the the dynamics of dense matter; and the evaluation of extreme gravity and fundamental physics.
–
Presenters
-
Michael R Landry
- Caltech
- LIGO Hanford Observatory/Caltech