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Multimessenger astronomy with the Einstein Telescope
Gravitational waves (GWs) are expected to play a crucial role in the
development of multimessenger astrophysics. The combination of GW observations
with other astrophysical triggers, such as from gamma-ray and X-ray satellites,
optical/radio telescopes, and neutrino detectors allows us to decipher science
that would otherwise be inaccessible. In this paper, we provide a broad review
from the multimessenger perspective of the science reach offered by the third
generation interferometric GW detectors and by the Einstein Telescope (ET) in
particular. We focus on cosmic transients, and base our estimates on the
results obtained by ET's predecessors GEO, LIGO, and Virgo.Comment: 26 pages. 3 figures. Special issue of GRG on the Einstein Telescope.
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Data Analysis Challenges for the Einstein Telescope
The Einstein Telescope is a proposed third generation gravitational wave
detector that will operate in the region of 1 Hz to a few kHz. As well as the
inspiral of compact binaries composed of neutron stars or black holes, the
lower frequency cut-off of the detector will open the window to a number of new
sources. These will include the end stage of inspirals, plus merger and
ringdown of intermediate mass black holes, where the masses of the component
bodies are on the order of a few hundred solar masses. There is also the
possibility of observing intermediate mass ratio inspirals, where a stellar
mass compact object inspirals into a black hole which is a few hundred to a few
thousand times more massive. In this article, we investigate some of the data
analysis challenges for the Einstein Telescope such as the effects of increased
source number, the need for more accurate waveform models and the some of the
computational issues that a data analysis strategy might face.Comment: 18 pages, Invited review for Einstein Telescope special edition of
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Sensitivity Studies for Third-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories
Advanced gravitational wave detectors, currently under construction, are
expected to directly observe gravitational wave signals of astrophysical
origin. The Einstein Telescope, a third-generation gravitational wave detector,
has been proposed in order to fully open up the emerging field of gravitational
wave astronomy. In this article we describe sensitivity models for the Einstein
Telescope and investigate potential limits imposed by fundamental noise
sources. A special focus is set on evaluating the frequency band below 10Hz
where a complex mixture of seismic, gravity gradient, suspension thermal and
radiation pressure noise dominates. We develop the most accurate sensitivity
model, referred to as ET-D, for a third-generation detector so far, including
the most relevant fundamental noise contributions.Comment: 13 pages, 7 picture
Effect of metallicity on the gravitational-wave signal from the cosmological population of compact binary coalescences
Recent studies on stellar evolution have shown that the properties of compact
objects strongly depend on the metallicity of the environment in which they
were formed. Using some very simple assumptions on the metallicity of the
stellar populations, we explore how this property affects the unresolved
gravitational-wave background from extragalactic compact binaries. We obtained
a suit of models using population synthesis code, estimated the
gravitational-wave background they produce, and discuss its detectability with
second- (advanced LIGO, advanced Virgo) and third- (Einstein Telescope)
generation detectors. Our results show that the background is dominated by
binary black holes for all considered models in the frequency range of
terrestrial detectors, and that it could be detected in most cases by advanced
LIGO/Virgo, and with Einstein Telescope with a very high signal-to-noise ratio.
The observed peak in a gravitational wave spectrum depends on the metallicity
of the stellar population.Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures, accepted to A&
Discovery of Multiply Imaged Galaxies behind the Cluster and Lensed Quasar SDSS J1004+4112
We have identified three multiply imaged galaxies in Hubble Space Telescope
images of the redshift z=0.68 cluster responsible for the large-separation
quadruply lensed quasar, SDSS J1004+4112. Spectroscopic redshifts have been
secured for two of these systems using the Keck I 10m telescope. The most
distant lensed galaxy, at z=3.332, forms at least four images, and an Einstein
ring encompassing 3.1 times more area than the Einstein ring of the lensed QSO
images at z=1.74, due to the greater source distance. For a second multiply
imaged galaxy, we identify Ly_alpha emission at a redshift of z=2.74. The
cluster mass profile can be constrained from near the center of the brightest
cluster galaxy, where we observe both a radial arc and the fifth image of the
lensed quasar, to the Einstein radius of the highest redshift galaxy, ~110 kpc.
Our preliminary modeling indicates that the mass approximates an elliptical
body, with an average projected logarithmic gradient of ~-0.5. The system is
potentially useful for a direct measurement of world models in a previously
untested redshift range.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted by ApJL. High resolution version of the
paper can be found at: http://wise-obs.tau.ac.il/~kerens/papers.htm
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