Open AccessGravitational Waves Detectors
Author(s) -
F. Ricci
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of physics. conference series
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.21
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1742-6596
pISSN - 1742-6588
DOI - 10.1088/1742-6596/1468/1/012224
Subject(s) - ligo , gravitational wave , physics , neutron star , pathfinder , detector , astronomy , astrophysics , optics , computer science , library science
The search for direct detection of Gravitational Wave made a huge step forward in the years between 2015-2017. After the first detection signals from the coalescence of binary black hole systems, we had both the great success of the LISA pathfinder mission and the detection of the first event due to a neutron star - neutron star merger tagged as the birth of the multi messenger astronomy. A new era is now opened where the GW events are detected routinely by the triangular network of LIGO and Virgo that in the nearest future will be enlarged by including KAGRA, the fourth detector in Japan. Here we review the evolution of the existing detectors focusing our attention essentially on the middle and long-term evolution of those on the Earth.