Status of Advanced Virgo

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Status of Advanced Virgo

M. Vasúth T. Di Girolamo Archisman Ghosh Piotr Jaranowski Lloyd Paul Aiello R. J. G. Jonker Sourav Ghosh Sourav Ghosh S. Mastrogiovanni L. Di Fiore M. Montani F. Frasconi F. Paoletti P. Ruggi Alejandro Torres-forné M. Barsuglia C. Palomba R. Flaminio M. Branchesi D. Estevez H. J. Bulten L. Van Der Schaaf D. Passuello A. Cirone F. Di Renzo Nelson Christensen N. Leroy Nicolas Sanchis-gual E. Genin F. Baldaccini J. P. Zendri G. Wang R. De Rosa Antoine Heidmann A. Giazotto M. C. Tringali I. Belahcene J. F. J. Van Den Brand M. Tacca I. Nardecchia G. Bogaert C. De Rossi Frédérique Marion I. Ferrante O. Halim A. Gennai M. Ducrot J. Meidam F. Ricci David Cohen R. Pedurand R. Pedurand E. Chassande-mottin K. W. Tsang D. Verkindt A. Rocchi C. Lazzaro Patricia Schmidt Thibaut Jacqmin V. Brisson G. Pillant S. Di Pace D. Huet D. Hoak D. Sentenac Todd Adams M. Bawaj G. Losurdo Samuele Cortese A. K. Zadrożny V. Boschi O. J. Piccinni A. R. Williamson R. Metzdorff J.-m. Isac M. Van Beuzekom A. Paoli M. Lorenzini P. Puppo I. Maksimovic Tanja Hinderer M. Bejger Tania Regimbau Kazuhiro Agatsuma L. Rolland Fabrizio Barone M. Tonelli M. Mohan N. Man M. Boer G. Hemming M. Leonardi Jan Harms Edward K. Porter T. Zelenova I. Kowalska J. V. Van Heijningen M. Di Giovanni F. Fidecaro G. M. Guidi Felice Sorrentino A. Singhal G. Greco Gianpietro Cagnoli Gianpietro Cagnoli Tristan Briant Giuseppe Intini R. De Pietri R. De Pietri N. Letendre V. Loriette Fabien Kéfélian Benoit Sassolas C. Michel Aniello Grado L. Trozzo Priscilla Canizares Marie-anne Bizouard C. Buy Rocco Romano A. Allocca E. Cuoco D. Lumaca P. Leaci A. Colla F. Vetrano V. Dattilo L. Naticchioni S. Antier Mandar Patil S. D'antonio P. Bacon Jerome Degallaix Samaya Nissanke Samaya Nissanke C. Casentini A. Lartaux-vollard F. Cavalier David A. Nichols F. Travasso Y. Bouffanais B. Patricelli A. Chiummo R. Gouaty A. Brillet A. Perreca G. Gemme G. Vedovato M. Merzougui A. Miller Pablo Cerdá-durán M. Punturo Luca Gammaitoni Fausto Acernese F. Garufi B. A. Boom G. Ballardin E. Cesarini V. Dolique M. Mantovani Marco Bazzan A. Viceré Riccardo Ciolfi D. Bersanetti M. Vardaro M. Sieniawska C. Bradaschia Fabio Marchesoni M. K. M. Bader S. Frasca Maurizio Canepa G. Cella L. Pinard F. Nocera P. Gruning Federico Ferrini F. Robinet S. Koley B. Mours E. Coccia Antonio Marquina F. Cleva S. Caudill M. Yvert M. Pichot A. Królak Lionel Martellini L. Conti P. Astone A. Moggi V. Fafone S. Ascenzi R. Passaquieti Y. Minenkov G. A. Prodi Alessandro Bertolini D. Fiorucci David Jonathan Hofman Enrico Calloni M. Gosselin G. Stratta L. Salconi J. Casanueva Diaz E. Capocasa F. Piergiovanni R. C. Walet C. Van Den Broeck C. Van Den Broeck Tomasz Bulik François Bondu D. Buskulic V. Germain L. Milano W. Del Pozzo P. F. Cohadon M. Davier H. Heitmann José A. Font Steven Bloemen R. Cavalieri M. De Laurentis A. Hreibi M. Was H. Vocca A. Basti P. Popolizio J.-p. Coulon V. Sequino F. Carbognani J.-d. Fournier G. Ciani Samuel Deléglise I. Fiori Rosa Poggiani V. Frey A. Bozzi S. Farinon Sheon Chua Paul J. Groot R. Bonnand Isabel Cordero-carrión Olivier Minazzoli M. Razzano F. Martelli N. Arnaud L. Rei Gijs Nelemans Gijs Nelemans P. Rapagnani M. Granata J. M. Gonzalez Castro G. Cerretani D. Barta Anthony A. Amato N. Van Bakel A. Masserot S. N. Tiwari I. Khan Ettore Majorana M. Bitossi D. Rosińska D. Rosińska Patrice Hello I. Di Palma J-y. Vinet A. Kutynia Andrea Chincarini A. Pasqualetti B. L. Swinkels A. Di Lieto

subject

cosmological model detector: performance Virgo LIGO gravitational wave Astronomy interferometer QC1-999 detector: network gravitational radiation: direct detection 01 natural sciences Coincidence Cosmology Physics and Astronomy (all)0103 physical sciences [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]LIGO 010306 general physics Settore FIS/01 Physics 010308 nuclear & particles physics Gravitational wave Physics Detector gravitational radiation Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Astronomy gravitational radiation detector LIGO detector: sensitivity Interferometry VIRGO Amplitude Physics and Astronomy gravitational radiation: emission [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]

description

The LIGO and the Virgo collaborations have recently announced the first detections of Gravitational Waves. Due to their weak amplitude, Gravitational Waves are expected to produce a very small effect on free-falling masses, which undergo a displacement of the order of 10-18 m for a Km-scale mutual distance. This discovery showed that interferometric detectors are suitable to reveal such a feeble effect, and therefore represent a new tool for astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology in the understanding of the Universe. To better reconstruct the position of the Gravitational Wave source and increase the signal-to-noise ratio of the events by means of multiple coincidence, a network of detectors is necessary. In the USA, the LIGO project has recently concluded its second Observation Run (O2) with a couple of twin 4 kilometer-long arms detectors which are placed in Washington State and Louisiana. Advanced VIRGO (AdV) is a 3 kilometer-long arms second generation interferometer situated in Cascina, near Pisa in Italy. The installation of AdV has been completed in 2016, and the first commissioning phase allowed to get to the target early-stage sensitivity, which was sufficient to join LIGO in the O2 scientific run. In this paper, the challenges of the commissioning of AdV will be presented, together with its current performances and future perspectives. Finally, in the last paragraph the latest discoveries that occurred after the ICNFP 2017 conference will be also described.

year	journal	country	edition	language
2017-08-17

10.1051/epjconf/201818202003 http://hdl.handle.net/2066/197506