Conveners
Plenary: Plenary
- Kentaro Somiya (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
I will overview how extending detector sensitivities at low gravitational wave frequencies will let us observe the first merging stellar black holes forming at cosmic dawn, and unveil the still elusive population of intermediate-mass black holes, which provides clues on the yet unknown origins of the massive black holes lurking at the centres of today's galaxies.
Starting from the example of GW170817, I will discuss prospects for multi-messenger gravitational-wave astronomy, highlighting opportunities to clarify currently open questions in the field, while expanding multi-messenger studies beyond the realm of compact binary mergers.
This talk will overview the current views of low frequency noise contributions in LIGO. This overview provides context to discuss potential upgrade options either to reduce direct noise contributions or to address underlying causes of complex bilinear noises.
Advanced Virgo Plus is a two step plan for improving the sensitivity
of Advanced Virgo for the O4 and O5 observing runs. After discussing
the low frequency noises that have limited AdV in O3, we will present
the planned AdV+ upgrades and adjustments that aim at reducing the low
frequency fundamental and technical noises for O4 and O5.
