Speaker
Teviet Creighton
(University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
Description
The quiet seismic environment and natural hard vacuum on the Moon offers opportunities for gravitational-wave detectors that are complementary to both Terrestrial and free-floating space-based instruments. The Lunar Interferometer Laser Antenna (LILA) is a proposed xylophone gravitational-wave detector on the Moon, starting with an unsuspended interferometer operating at sub-decihertz frequencies, followed by a suspended interferometer for supra-decihertz frequencies. This presentation will focus on the low-frequency regime, establishing the fundamental noise sources and target sensitivity for LILA from millihertz to decihertz.
Author
Teviet Creighton
(University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)
Co-authors
John Conklin
Karan Jani
(Vanderbilt University)
Philippe Lognonné
(IPGP)
Robert Reed
(Vanderbilt University)
Volker Quetschke
(University of Texas Rio Grande Valley)