A Cryogenic Silicon Interferometer for Gravitational-wave Detection
Creators: name: Adhikari, Rana X
name: Aguiar, Odylio
name: Arai, Koji
name: Barr, Bryan
name: Bassiri, Riccardo
name: Billingsley, Garilynn
name: Birney, Ross
name: Blair, David
name: Briggs, Joseph
name: Brooks, Aidan F
name: Brown, Daniel D
name: Cao, Huy-Tuong
name: Constancio, Marcio
name: Cooper, Sam
name: Corbitt, Thomas
name: Coyne, Dennis
name: Daw, Edward
name: Eichholz, Johannes
name: Fejer, Martin
name: Freise, Andreas
name: Frolov, Valery
name: Gras, Slawomir
name: Green, Anna
name: Grote, Hartmut
name: Gustafson, Eric K
name: Hall, Evan D
name: Hammond, Giles
name: Harms, Jan
name: Harry, Gregg
name: Haughian, Karen
name: Hellman, Frances
name: Hennig, Jan-Simon
name: Hennig, Margot
name: Hild, Stefan
name: Johnson, Warren
name: Kamai, Brittany
name: Kapasi, Disha
name: Komori, Kentaro
name: Korobko, Mikhail
name: Kuns, Kevin
name: Lantz, Brian
name: Leavey, Sean
name: Magana-Sandoval, Fabian
name: Markosyan, Ashot
name: Martin, Iain
name: Martin, Rodica
name: Martynov, Denis V
name: Mcclelland, David
name: Mcghee, Graeme
name: Mills, Joseph
name: Mitrofanov, Valery
name: Molina-Ruiz, Manel
name: Mow-Lowry, Conor
name: Murray, Peter
name: Ng, Sebastian
name: Prokhorov, Leonid
name: Quetschke, Volker
name: Reid, Stuart
name: Reitze, David
name: Richardson, Jonathan
name: Robie, Raymond
name: Romero-Shaw, Isobel
name: Rowan, Sheila
name: Schnabel, Roman
name: Schneewind, Merle
name: Shapiro, Brett
name: Shoemaker, David
name: Slagmolen, Bram
name: Smith, Joshua
name: Steinlechner, Jessica
name: Tait, Simon
name: Tanner, David
name: Torrie, Calum
name: Vanheijningen, Joris
name: Veitch, Peter
name: Wallace, Gavin
name: Wessels, Peter
name: Willke, Benno
name: Wipf, Christopher
name: Yamamoto, Hiro
name: Zhao, Chunnong
name: Barsotti, Lisa
name: Ward, Robert
name: Bell, Angus
name: Byer, Robert
name: Wade, Andrew
name: Korth, William Z
name: Seifert, Frank
name: Smith, Nicholas
name: Koptsov, Dimitry
name: Tornasi, Zeno
name: Markowitz, Aaron
name: Mansell, Georgia
name: Mcrae, Terry
name: Altin, Paul
name: Yap, Min J
name: Van Veggel, Marielle
name: Eddolls, Graeme
name: Bonilla, Edgard
name: Ferreira, Elvis C
name: Silva, Allan S
name: Okada, Marcos A
name: Taira, Diego
name: Heinert, Daniel
name: Hough, James
name: Strain, Ken
name: Cumming, Alan
name: Route, Roger
name: Shaddock, Daniel
name: Evans, Matthew
name: Weiss, Rainer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The detection of gravitational waves from compact binary mergers by LIGO has opened the era of gravitational wave astronomy, revealing a previously hidden side of the cosmos. To maximize the reach of the existing LIGO observatory facilities, we have designed a new instrument that will have 5 times the range of Advanced LIGO, or greater than 100 times the event rate. Observations with this new instrument will make possible dramatic steps toward understanding the physics of the nearby universe, as well as observing the universe out to cosmological distances by the detection of binary black hole coalescences. This article presents the instrument design and a quantitative analysis of the anticipated noise floor.