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The next detectors for gravitational wave astronomy

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This paper focuses on the next detectors for gravitational wave astronomy which will be required after the current ground based detectors have completed their initial observations, and probably achieved the first direct detection of gravitational waves. The next detectors will need to have greater sensitivity, while also enabling the world array of detectors to have improved angular resolution to allow localisation of signal sources. Sect. 1 of this paper begins by reviewing proposals for the next ground based detectors, and presents an analysis of the sensitivity of an 8 km armlength detector, which is proposed as a safe and cost-effective means to attain a 4-fold improvement in sensitivity. The scientific benefits of creating a pair of such detectors in China and Australia is emphasised. Sect. 2 of this paper discusses the high performance suspension systems for test masses that will be an essential component for future detectors, while sect. 3 discusses solutions to the problem of Newtonian noise which arise from fluctuations in gravity gradient forces acting on test masses. Such gravitational perturbations cannot be shielded, and set limits to low frequency sensitivity unless measured and suppressed. Sects. 4 and 5 address critical operational technologies that will be ongoing issues in future detectors. Sect. 4 addresses the design of thermal compensation systems needed in all high optical power interferometers operating at room temperature. Parametric instability control is addressed in sect. 5. Only recently proven to occur in Advanced LIGO, parametric instability phenomenon brings both risks and opportunities for future detectors. The path to future enhancements of detectors will come from quantum measurement technologies. Sect. 6 focuses on the use of optomechanical devices for obtaining enhanced sensitivity, while sect. 7 reviews a range of quantum measurement options.

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  1. School of Physics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia

    David Blair, Li Ju, ChunNong Zhao, LinQing Wen, Carl Blair, YiQiu Ma, JiaYi Qin & Michael Page

  2. School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK

    HaiXing Miao

  3. State Key Laboratory of Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

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  4. The School of Physics & Electronic Engineering, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 030006, China

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    Dong Liu

  7. Laboratory of Optical Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China

    Ling-An Wu

  8. Gravitational Wave and Cosmology Laboratory, Department of Astronomy, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, 100875, China

    ZongHong Zhu

  9. School of Physics and Astronomy, SUPA University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK

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  10. Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA

    Ho Jung Paik

  11. University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, 00133, Italy

    Viviana Fafone

  12. INFN Roma Tor Vergata, Rome, 00133, Italy

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Blair, D., Ju, L., Zhao, C. et al. The next detectors for gravitational wave astronomy. Sci. China Phys. Mech. Astron. 58, 120405 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11433-015-5747-7

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