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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 75: Eingeladene Vorträge (Invited Topical Talks) VI

T 75.2: Invited Topical Talk

Thursday, March 18, 2021, 14:30–15:00, HS 1

Gravitational wave astronomy: highlights so far and future detectors — •David S. Wu — Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Hannover, Germany

The first three observation runs from the advanced (2nd) generation of gravitational wave detectors (GWDs) have opened the doors to the era of gravitational wave astronomy and provided fantastic and partly unexpected scientific results. Upgrades to the current detectors and especially planned future ground-based GWDs such as the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer will improve the sensitivity limitations of the current detectors by more than an order of magnitude. This increased sensitivity of future GWDs will open a scientific treasure trove and help answer some of the important open questions of cosmology and astrophysics.