Exploring the sensitivity of next generation gravitational wave detectors

Author(s): B P Abbott , R Abbott , T D Abbott , M R Abernathy , K Ackley , C Adams , P Addesso , R X Adhikari , V B Adya , C Affeldt , N Aggarwal , O D Aguiar , A Ain , P Ajith , B Allen , P A Altin , S B Anderson , W G Anderson , K Arai , M C Araya , C C Arceneaux , J S Areeda , K G Arun , G Ashton , M Ast , S M Aston , P Aufmuth , C Aulbert , S Babak , P T Baker , S W Ballmer , J C Barayoga , S E Barclay , B C Barish , D Barker , B Barr , L Barsotti , J Bartlett , I Bartos , R Bassiri , J C Batch , C Baune , A S Bell , B K Berger , G Bergmann , C P L Berry , J Betzwieser , S Bhagwat , R Bhandare , I A Bilenko , G Billingsley , J Birch , R Birney , S Biscans , A Bisht , C Biwer , J K Blackburn , C D Blair , D G Blair , R M Blair , O Bock , C Bogan , A Bohe , C Bond , R Bork , S Bose , P R Brady , V B Braginsky , J E Brau , M Brinkmann , P Brockill , J E Broida , A F Brooks , D A Brown , D D Brown , N M Brown , S Brunett , C C Buchanan , A Buikema , A Buonanno , R L Byer , M Cabero , L Cadonati , C Cahillane , J Calderón Bustillo , T Callister , J B Camp , K C Cannon , J Cao , C D Capano , S Caride , S Caudill , M Cavaglià , C B Cepeda , S J Chamberlin , M Chan , S Chao , P Charlton , B D Cheeseboro , H Y Chen , Y Chen , C Cheng , H S Cho , M Cho , J H Chow , N Christensen , Q Chu , S Chung , G Ciani , F Clara , J A Clark , C G Collette , L Cominsky , M Constancio , D Cook , T R Corbitt , N Cornish , A Corsi , C A Costa , M W Coughlin , S B Coughlin , S T Countryman , P Couvares , E E Cowan , D M Coward , M J Cowart , D C Coyne , R Coyne , K Craig , J D E Creighton , J Cripe , S G Crowder , A Cumming , L Cunningham , T Dal Canton , S L Danilishin , K Danzmann , N S Darman , A Dasgupta , C F Da Silva Costa , I Dave , G S Davies , E J Daw , S De , D DeBra , W Del Pozzo , T Denker , T Dent , V Dergachev , R T DeRosa , R DeSalvo , R C Devine , S Dhurandhar , M C Díaz , I Di Palma , F Donovan , K L Dooley , S Doravari , R Douglas , T P Downes , M Drago , R W P Drever , J C Driggers , S E Dwyer , T B Edo , M C Edwards , A Effler , H-B Eggenstein , P Ehrens , J Eichholz , S S Eikenberry , W Engels , R C Essick , T Etzel , M Evans , T M Evans , R Everett , M Factourovich , H Fair , S Fairhurst , X Fan , Q Fang , B Farr , W M Farr , M Favata , M Fays , H Fehrmann , M M Fejer , E Fenyvesi , E C Ferreira , R P Fisher , M Fletcher , Z Frei , A Freise , R Frey , P Fritschel , V V Frolov , P Fulda , M Fyffe , H A G Gabbard , J R Gair , S G Gaonkar , G Gaur , N Gehrels , P Geng , J George , L Gergely , Abhirup Ghosh , Archisman Ghosh , J A Giaime , K D Giardina , K Gill , A Glaefke , E Goetz , R Goetz , L Gondan , G González , A Gopakumar , N A Gordon , M L Gorodetsky , S E Gossan , C Graef , P B Graff , A Grant , S Gras , C Gray , A C Green , H Grote , S Grunewald , X Guo , A Gupta , M K Gupta , K E Gushwa , E K Gustafson , R Gustafson , J J Hacker , B R Hall , E D Hall , G Hammond , M Haney , M M Hanke , J Hanks , C Hanna , M D Hannam , J Hanson , T Hardwick , G M Harry , I W Harry , M J Hart , M T Hartman , C-J Haster , K Haughian , M C Heintze , M Hendry , I S Heng , J Hennig , J Henry , A W Heptonstall , M Heurs , S Hild , D Hoak , K Holt , D E Holz , P Hopkins , J Hough , E A Houston , E J Howell , Y M Hu , S Huang , E A Huerta , B Hughey , S Husa , S H Huttner , T Huynh-Dinh , N Indik , D R Ingram , R Inta , H N Isa , M Isi , T Isogai , B R Iyer , K Izumi , H Jang , K Jani , S Jawahar , L Jian , F Jiménez-Forteza , W W Johnson , D I Jones , R Jones , L Ju , K Haris , C V Kalaghatgi , V Kalogera , S Kandhasamy , G Kang , J B Kanner , S J Kapadia , S Karki , K S Karvinen , M Kasprzack , E Katsavounidis , W Katzman , S Kaufer , T Kaur , K Kawabe , M S Kehl , D Keitel , D B Kelley , W Kells , R Kennedy , J S Key , F Y Khalili , S Khan , Z Khan , E A Khazanov , N Kijbunchoo , Chi-Woong Kim , Chunglee Kim , J Kim , K Kim , N Kim , W Kim , Y-M Kim , S J Kimbrell , E J King , P J King , J S Kissel , B Klein , L Kleybolte , S Klimenko , S M Koehlenbeck , V Kondrashov , A Kontos , M Korobko , W Z Korth , D B Kozak , V Kringel , C Krueger , G Kuehn , P Kumar , R Kumar , L Kuo , B D Lackey , M Landry , J Lange , B Lantz , P D Lasky , M Laxen , A Lazzarini , S Leavey , E O Lebigot , C H Lee , H K Lee , H M Lee , K Lee , A Lenon , J R Leong , Y Levin , J B Lewis , T G F Li , A Libson , T B Littenberg , N A Lockerbie , A L Lombardi , L T London , J E Lord , M Lormand , J D Lough , H Lück , A P Lundgren , R Lynch , Y Ma , B Machenschalk , M MacInnis , D M Macleod , F Magaña-Sandoval , L Magaña Zertuche , R M Magee , V Mandic , V Mangano , G L Mansell , M Manske , S Márka , Z Márka , A S Markosyan , E Maros , I W Martin , D V Martynov , K Mason , T J Massinger , M Masso-Reid , F Matichard , L Matone , N Mavalvala , N Mazumder , R McCarthy , D E McClelland , S McCormick , S C McGuire , G McIntyre , J McIver , D J McManus , T McRae , S T McWilliams , D Meacher , G D Meadors , A Melatos , G Mendell , R A Mercer , E L Merilh , S Meshkov , C Messenger , C Messick , P M Meyers , H Miao , H Middleton , E E Mikhailov , A L Miller , A Miller , B B Miller , J Miller , M Millhouse , J Ming , S Mirshekari , C Mishra , S Mitra , V P Mitrofanov , G Mitselmakher , R Mittleman , S R P Mohapatra , B C Moore , C J Moore , D Moraru , G Moreno , S R Morriss , K Mossavi , C M Mow-Lowry , G Mueller , A W Muir , Arunava Mukherjee , D Mukherjee , S Mukherjee , N Mukund , A Mullavey , J Munch , D J Murphy , P G Murray , A Mytidis , R K Nayak , K Nedkova , T J N Nelson , A Neunzert , G Newton , T T Nguyen , A B Nielsen , A Nitz , D Nolting , M E N Normandin , L K Nuttall , J Oberling , E Ochsner , J O’Dell , E Oelker , G H Ogin , J J Oh , S H Oh , F Ohme , M Oliver , P Oppermann , Richard J Oram , B O’Reilly , R O’Shaughnessy , D J Ottaway , H Overmier , B J Owen , A Pai , S A Pai , J R Palamos , O Palashov , A Pal-Singh , H Pan , C Pankow , F Pannarale , B C Pant , M A Papa , H R Paris , W Parker , D Pascucci , Z Patrick , B L Pearlstone , M Pedraza , L Pekowsky , A Pele , S Penn , A Perreca , L M Perri , M Phelps , V Pierro , I M Pinto , M Pitkin , M Poe , A Post , J Powell , J Prasad , V Predoi , T Prestegard , L R Price , M Prijatelj , M Principe , S Privitera , L Prokhorov , O Puncken , M Pürrer , H Qi , J Qin , S Qiu , V Quetschke , E A Quintero , R Quitzow-James , F J Raab , D S Rabeling , H Radkins , P Raffai , S Raja , C Rajan , M Rakhmanov , V Raymond , J Read , C M Reed , S Reid , D H Reitze , H Rew , S D Reyes , K Riles , M Rizzo , N A Robertson , R Robie , J G Rollins , V J Roma , G Romanov , J H Romie , S Rowan , A Rüdiger , K Ryan , S Sachdev , T Sadecki , L Sadeghian , M Sakellariadou , M Saleem , F Salemi , A Samajdar , L Sammut , E J Sanchez , V Sandberg , B Sandeen , J R Sanders , B S Sathyaprakash , P R Saulson , O E S Sauter , R L Savage , A Sawadsky , P Schale , R Schilling , J Schmidt , P Schmidt , R Schnabel , R M S Schofield , A Schönbeck , E Schreiber , D Schuette , B F Schutz , J Scott , S M Scott , D Sellers , A S Sengupta , A Sergeev , D A Shaddock , T Shaffer , M S Shahriar , M Shaltev , B Shapiro , P Shawhan , A Sheperd , D H Shoemaker , D M Shoemaker , K Siellez , X Siemens , D Sigg , A D Silva , A Singer , L P Singer , A Singh , R Singh , A M Sintes , B J J Slagmolen , J R Smith , N D Smith , R J E Smith , E J Son , B Sorazu , T Souradeep , A K Srivastava , A Staley , M Steinke , J Steinlechner , S Steinlechner , D Steinmeyer , B C Stephens , R Stone , K A Strain , N A Strauss , S Strigin , R Sturani , A L Stuver , T Z Summerscales , L Sun , S Sunil , P J Sutton , M J Szczepańczyk , D Talukder , D B Tanner , M Tápai , S P Tarabrin , A Taracchini , R Taylor , T Theeg , M P Thirugnanasambandam , E G Thomas , M Thomas , P Thomas , K A Thorne , E Thrane , V Tiwari , K V Tokmakov , K Toland , C Tomlinson , Z Tornasi , C V Torres , C I Torrie , D Töyrä , G Traylor , D Trifirò , M Tse , D Tuyenbayev , D Ugolini , C S Unnikrishnan , A L Urban , S A Usman , H Vahlbruch , G Vajente , G Valdes , D C Vander-Hyde , A A van Veggel , S Vass , R Vaulin , A Vecchio , J Veitch , P J Veitch , K Venkateswara , S Vinciguerra , D J Vine , S Vitale , T Vo , C Vorvick , D V Voss , W D Vousden , S P Vyatchanin , A R Wade , L E Wade , M Wade , M Walker , L Wallace , S Walsh , H Wang , M Wang , X Wang , Y Wang , R L Ward , J Warner , B Weaver , M Weinert , A J Weinstein , R Weiss , L Wen , P Weßels , T Westphal , K Wette , J T Whelan , B F Whiting , R D Williams , A R Williamson , J L Willis , B Willke , M H Wimmer , W Winkler , C C Wipf , H Wittel , G Woan , J Woehler , J Worden , J L Wright , D S Wu , G Wu , J Yablon , W Yam , H Yamamoto , C C Yancey , H Yu , M Zanolin , M Zevin , L Zhang , M Zhang , Y Zhang , C Zhao , M Zhou , Z Zhou , X J Zhu , M E Zucker , S E Zuraw , J Zweizig , J Harms , (LIGO Scientific Collaboration)

Publication date (Electronic): January 24 2017

Journal: Classical and Quantum Gravity

Publisher: IOP Publishing