| Title: |
The Science of the Einstein Telescope |
| Authors: |
Abac, Adrian; Abramo, Raul; Albanesi, Simone; Albertini, Angelica; Agapito, Alessandro; Agathos, Michalis; Albertus, Conrado; Andersson, Nils; Andrade, Tomás; Andreoni, Igor; Angeloni, Federico; Antonelli, Marco; Antoniadis, John; Antonini, Fabio; Sedda, Manuel Arca; Artale, M Celeste; Ascenzi, Stefano; Auclair, Pierre; Bachetti, Matteo; Badger, Charles; Banerjee, Biswajit; Barba-González, David; Barta, Dániel; Bartolo, Nicola; Bauswein, Andreas; Begnoni, Andrea; Beirnaert, Freija; Bejger, Michał; Belgacem, Enis; Bellomo, Nicola; Bernard, Laura; Bernardini, Maria Grazia; Bernuzzi, Sebastiano; Berry, Christopher PL; Berti, Emanuele; Bertone, Gianfranco; Bettoni, Dario; Bezares, Miguel; Bhagwat, Swetha; Bisero, Sofia; Bizouard, Marie Anne; Blanco-Pillado, Jose J; Blasi, Simone; Bonino, Alice; Borghese, Alice; Borghi, Nicola; Borhanian, Ssohrab; Bortolas, Elisa; Botticella, Maria Teresa; Branchesi, Marica; Breschi, Matteo; Brito, Richard; Brocato, Enzo; Broekgaarden, Floor S; Bulik, Tomasz; Buonanno, Alessandra; Burgio, Fiorella; Burrows, Adam; Calcagni, Gianluca; Canevarolo, Sofia; Cappellaro, Enrico; Capurri, Giulia; Carbone, Carmelita; Casadio, Roberto; Cayuso, Ramiro; Cerdá-Durán, Pablo; Char, Prasanta; Chaty, Sylvain; Chiarusi, Tommaso; Chruslinska, Martyna; Cireddu, Francesco; Cole, Philippa; Colombo, Alberto; Colpi, Monica; Compère, Geoffrey; Contaldi, Carlo; Corman, Maxence; Crescimbeni, Francesco; Cristallo, Sergio; Cuoco, Elena; Cusin, Giulia; Dal Canton, Tito; Dálya, Gergely; D'Avanzo, Paolo; Davari, Nazanin; De Luca, Valerio; De Renzis, Viola; Della Valle, Massimo; Del Pozzo, Walter; De Santi, Federico; De Santis, Alessio Ludovico; Dietrich, Tim; Dimastrogiovanni, Ema; Domenech, Guillem; Doneva, Daniela; Drago, Marco; Dupletsa, Ulyana; Duval, Hannah; Dvorkin, Irina; Elias-Rosa, Nancy; Fairhurst, Stephen; Fantina, Anthea F; Fasiello, Matteo; Fays, Maxime; Fender, Rob; Fischer, Tobias; Foucart, François; Fragos, Tassos; Foffa, Stefano; Franciolini, Gabriele; Fumagalli, Jacopo; Gair, Jonathan; Gamba, Rossella; Garcia-Bellido, Juan; García-Quirós, Cecilio; Gergely, László Árpád; Ghirlanda, Giancarlo; Ghosh, Archisman; Giacomazzo, Bruno; Gittins, Fabian; Giudice, Ines Francesca; Goncharov, Boris; Gonzalez, Alejandra; Goriély, Stéphane; Graziani, Luca; Greco, Giuseppe; Gualtieri, Leonardo; Guidi, Gianluca Maria; Gupta, Ish; Haney, Maria; Hannam, Mark; Harms, Jan; Harutyunyan, Arus; Haskell, Brynmor; Haungs, Andreas; Hazra, Nandini; Hemming, Gary; Heng, Ik Siong; Hinderer, Tanja; van der Horst, Alexander; Hu, Qian; Husa, Sascha; Iacovelli, Francesco; Illuminati, Giulia; Inguglia, Gianluca; Villalba, David Izquierdo; Janquart, Justin; Janssens, Kamiel; Jenkins, Alexander C; Jones, Ian; Kacskovics, Balázs; Klessen, Ralf S; Kokkotas, Kostas; Kuan, Hao-Jui; Kumar, Sumit; Kuroyanagi, Sachiko; Laghi, Danny; Lamberts, Astrid; Lambiase, Gaetano; Larrouturou, François; Leaci, Paola; Lenzi, Michele; Levan, Andrew; Li, TGF; Li, Yufeng; Liang, Dicong; Limongi, Marco; Liu, Boyuan; Llanes-Estrada, Felipe J; Loffredo, Eleonora; Long, Oliver; Lope-Oter, Eva; Lukes-Gerakopoulos, Georgios; Maggio, Elisa; Maggiore, Michele; Mancarella, Michele; Mapelli, Michela; Marchant, Pablo; Margiotta, Annarita; Mariotti, Alberto; Marriott-Best, Alisha; Marsat, Sylvain; Martínez-Pinedo, Gabriel; Maselli, Andrea; Mastrogiovanni, Simone; Matos, Isabela; Melandri, Andrea; Mendes, Raissa FP; de Souza, Josiel Mendonça Soares; Mentasti, Giorgio; Mezcua, Mar; Mösta, Philipp; Mondal, Chiranjib; Moresco, Michele; Mukherjee, Tista; Muttoni, Niccolò; Nagar, Alessandro; Narola, Harsh; Nava, Lara; Moreno, Pablo Navarro; Nelemans, Gijs; Nielsen, Alex B; Nissanke, Samaya; Obergaulinger, Martin; Oertel, Micaela; Oganesyan, Gor; Onori, Francesca; Pacilio, Costantino; Pagliaroli, Giulia; Palomba, Cristiano; Pang, Peter TH; Pani, Paolo; Papalini, Lucia; Patricelli, Barbara; Patruno, Alessandro; Pedrotti, Alessandro; Perego, Albino; Pérez-García, Maria Angeles; Périgois, Carole; Perna, Gabriele; Péroux, Celine; Perret, J; Perrodin, Delphine; Pesci, Alessandro; Pfeiffer, Harald P; Piccinni, Ornella Juliana; Pieroni, Mauro; Piranomonte, Silvia; Pompili, Lorenzo; Porter, EK; Porto, Rafael A; Pound, Adam; Powell, Jade; Puech, Mathieu; Pratten, Geraint; Puecher, Anna; Pujolas, Oriol; Quartin, Miguel; Raduta, Adriana R; Ramos-Buades, Antoni; Rase, Aäron; Razzano, Massimiliano; Rea, Nanda; Regimbau, Tania; Renzini, Arianna; Rettegno, Piero; Ricciardone, Angelo; Riotto, Antonio; Romero-Rodriguez, Alba; Ronchini, Samuele; Rosinska, Dorota; Rossi, Andrea; Roy, Soumen; Rubiera-Garcia, Diego; Rubio, J; Ruiz-Lapuente, Pilar; Sagun, Violetta; Sakellariadou, Mairi; Salafia, Om Sharan; Samajdar, Anuradha; Sanchis-Gual, Nicolas; Sanna, Andrea; Santoliquido, Filippo; Sathyaprakash, Bangalore; Schmidt, Patricia; Schmidt, Stefano; Schneider, Fabian RN; Schneider, Raffaella; Sedrakian, Armen; Servant, Géraldine; Sevrin, Alexander; Shao, Lijing; Silva, Hector O; Simakachorn, Peera; Smartt, Stephen; Sotiriou, Thomas P; Spera, Mario; Stamerra, Antonio; Steer, Danièle A; Steinhoff, Jan; Stergioulas, Nikolaos; Sturani, Riccardo; Suárez, Duvier; Suresh, Jishnu; Swain, Shaun; Tagliazucchi, Matteo; Tamanini, Nicola; Tasinato, Gianmassimo; Tauris, Thomas M; Tissino, Jacopo; Tomaselli, Giovanni Maria; Toonen, Silvia; Torres-Forné, Alejandro; Turski, Cezary; Ugolini, Cristiano; Vagenas, Elias C; Dall’Armi, Lorenzo Valbusa; Valenti, Elena; Valiante, Rosa; Van Den Broeck, Chris; van de Meent, Maarten; van Son, Lieke AC; Vanvlasselaer, Miguel; Vaglio, Massimo; Varma, Vijay; Veitch, John; Vaskonen, Ville; Vergani, Susanna D; Wils, Milan; Witek, Helvi; Wong, Isaac CF; Yazadjiev, Stoytcho; Yim, Garvin; Acernese, Fausto; Ahn, Hojae; Allocca, Annalisa; Amato, Alex; Andrés-Carcasona, Marc; Avallone, Guerino; Bachlechner, Markus; Baer, Patrick; Bagnasco, Stefano; Balbi, Gabriele; Barone, Fabrizio; Benedetti, Eugenio; Benning, Charlotte; Bini, Simone; Salcedo, José Luis Blázquez; Bozza, Valerio; Bruno, Matteo; Butz, Timo; Califano, Matteo; Calloni, Enrico; Carapella, Giovanni; Cardini, Alessandro; Subrahmanya, Shreevathsa Chalathadka; Chiadini, Francesco; Chiummo, Antonino; Cianetti, Spina; Ciani, Giacomo; Coccia, Eugenio; Contu, Andrea; Cornelissen, Robin; Cozzumbo, Andrea; Croney, Lewis; Crosta, Mariateresa; D'Agostino, Rocco; Danilishin, Stefan; D'Antonio, Sabrina; De Bolle, Jorden; Degallaix, Jérôme; De Laurentis, Mariafelicia; della Monica, Riccardo; De Marco, Francesco; de Martino, Ivan; De Rosa, Rosario; De Salvo, Riccardo; De Simone, Roberta; Detavernier, Christophe; Diaferia, Giovanni; Di Cesare, Martina; Di Fiore, Luciano; Di Giovanni, Matteo; Di Pace, Sibilla; Docherty, Jennifer; D'Urso, Domenico; Mecherfi, Oussama El; Errico, Luciano; Fabrizi, Federica; Fafone, Viviana; Fanti, Viviana; Fittipaldi, Rosalba; Fiumara, Vincenzo; Freise, Andreas; Funk, Stefan; Gaedtke, Mika; Garufi, Fabio; Gerberding, Oliver; Giangrandi, Edoardo; Giunchi, Carlo; Graham, Victoria; Granata, Massimo; Granata, Veronica; Green, Anna; Haughian, Karen; Heisenberg, Lavinia; Hennig, Margot; Hild, Stefan; Hoang, Van Long; Holland, Nathan; Iannone, Gerardo; Isleif, Katharina-Sophie; Joppe, Robert; Kim, Chang-Hee; Kim, Chunglee; Kim, Kyungmin; Korb, Erika; Korobko, Mikhail; Kranzhoff, Luise; Kuhlbusch, Tim; Lacaille, Gregoire; Lartaux-Vollard, Angélique; Lavezzi, Lia; Laycock, Paul; Lee, Sumi; Lee, Sumin; Lee, Sungho; Losurdo, Giovanni; Lucchesi, Leonardo; Lück, Harald; Macquet, Adrian; Majorana, Ettore; Mangano, Valentina; Martelli, Filippo; Martin, Iain; Martinez, Mario; Masoni, Alberto; Massaro, Luca; Melini, Daniele; Mercurio, Amata; Mereni, Lorenzo; Miller, Andrew L; Mirasola, Lorenzo; Mitchell, Alexandra; Molinari, Irene; Montani, Matteo; Mow-Lowry, Conor; Murgia, Riccardo; Murray, Peter Gordon; Muscas, Giuseppe; Naticchioni, Luca; Nela, Ardiana; Nery, Marina; Niggemann, Tom; Nippe, Niklas; Novak, Jerome; Numic, Armin; Olivieri, Marco; Orsini, Marco; Park, June Gyu; Pascucci, Daniela; Perreca, Antonio; Piergiovanni, Francesco; Pierro, Vincenzo; Pinard, Laurent; Pinto, Innocenzo; Punturo, Michele; Puppo, Paola; Quochi, Francesco; Rading, Reinhardt Omondi; Rapagnani, Piero; Ricci, Marco; Rodrigues, Davi; Romano, Rocco; Rozza, Davide; Saffarieh, Pooya; Santucci, Federica; Schramm, Steven; Schwab, Benjamin; Sequino, Valeria; Neto, Liam Shelling; Silenzi, Laura; Sintes, Alicia M; Sopuerta, Carlos F; Spencer, Andrew; Stahl, Achim; Steinlechner, Jessica; Steinlechner, Sebastian; Szabó, Róbert; Thümmler, Thomas; Tofani, Emanuele; Torniamenti, Stefano; Travaglini, Riccardo; Trozzo, Lucia; Vaccaro, M Paola; Valentini, Michele; Ván, Peter; van Dongen, Jesse; van Heijningen, Joris; van Ranst, Zeb; Vardaro, Marco; Verdier, Patrice; Vernieri, Daniele; Wagner, Nico; Woehler, Janis; Wolf, Joachim; Zavattini, Guido; Zink, Adrian; Zmija, Andreas; collaboration, The Einstein Telescope |
| Publisher Information: |
IOP Publishing; //doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2026/03/081 |
| Publication Year: |
2026 |
| Collection: |
Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository |
| Subject Terms: |
5101 Astronomical Sciences; 51 Physical Sciences |
| Description: |
Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science objectives, providing state-of-the-art predictions for the capabilities of ET in both geometries currently under consideration, a single-site triangular configuration or two L-shaped detectors. We discuss the impact that ET will have on domains as broad and diverse as fundamental physics, cosmology, early Universe, astrophysics of compact objects, physics of matter in extreme conditions, and dynamics of stellar collapse. We discuss how the study of extreme astrophysical events will be enhanced by multi-messenger observations. We highlight the ET synergies with ground-based and space-borne GW observatories, including multi-band investigations of the same sources, improved parameter estimation, and complementary information on astrophysical or cosmological mechanisms obtained combining observations from different frequency bands. We present advancements in waveform modeling dedicated to third-generation observatories, along with open tools developed within the ET Collaboration for assessing the scientific potentials of different detector configurations. We finally discuss the data analysis challenges posed by third-generation observatories, which will enable access to large populations of sources and provide unprecedented precision. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| File Description: |
text/xml; application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
ae028b; jcap_088p_0325; https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/400748 |
| Availability: |
https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/400748 |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.A9C4D262 |
| Database: |
BASE |