Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s

Bailes, M., Berger, B. K., Brady, P. R., Branchesi, M., Danzmann, K., Evans, M., Holley-Bockelmann, K., Iyer, B. R., Kajita, T., Katsanevas, S., Kramer, M., Lazzarini, A., Lehner, L., Losurdo, G., Lück, H., McClelland, D. E., McLaughlin, M. A., Punturo, M., Ransom, S., Raychaudhury, S., Reitze, D. H., Ricci, F., Rowan, S., Saito, Y., Sanders, G. H., Sathyaprakash, B. S., Schutz, B. F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9487-6983, Sesana, A., Shinkai, H., Siemens, X., Shoemaker, D. H., Thorpe, J., van den Brand, J. F. J. and Vitale, S. 2021. Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy in the 2020s and 2030s. Nature Reviews Physics 3 (5) , 344–366. 10.1038/s42254-021-00303-8

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Abstract

The 100 years since the publication of Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity saw significant development of the understanding of the theory, the identification of potential astrophysical sources of sufficiently strong gravitational waves and development of key technologies for gravitational-wave detectors. In 2015, the first gravitational-wave signals were detected by the two US Advanced LIGO instruments. In 2017, Advanced LIGO and the European Advanced Virgo detectors pinpointed a binary neutron star coalescence that was also seen across the electromagnetic spectrum. The field of gravitational-wave astronomy is just starting, and this Roadmap of future developments surveys the potential for growth in bandwidth and sensitivity of future gravitational-wave detectors, and discusses the science results anticipated to come from upcoming instruments.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Physics and Astronomy
Publisher:	Nature Research
ISSN:	2522-5820
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	27 July 2021
Date of Acceptance:	8 March 2021
Last Modified:	20 Nov 2024 22:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/142925

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