Conveners
Science from O4 to Post O5
- Marica Branchesi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
- Barbara Patricelli (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
- Matteo Barsuglia
Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo have so far detected a total of 90 compact binary coalescences. These observations provided crucial information on neutron star and black hole populations, and already changed our understanding of the formation of compact binary systems. In this talk I will focus on some of the outstanding open questions raised by gravitational-wave observations, including the...
The LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA collaboration (LVK) are already proposing upgrades and observing plans for the decade between the 5th observing run (~2027) and the advent of third generation detectors in 2035. In this talk I will discuss the prospects, with the planned Post-O5 upgrades and beyond, of observing compact binary coalescences at cosmological scales. Given the current observations, I...
Perspectives for fundamental physics and exotic compact objects with current detectors and next generation detectors
Einstein Telescope (ET) is an European project for a third generation gravitational wave detector. The reference design is based on a triangular shape of three nested detectors of 10 km arms, where each arm consists of a ‘xylophone’ configuration made of one interferometer tuned towards high frequencies and the other one, cryogenic, towards low frequencies. The talk will overview the science...
