Opportunities and limits of lunar gravitational-wave detection
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| author | Cozzumbo, Andrea Mestichelli, Benedetta Mirabile, Marco Paiella, Lavinia Tissino, Jacopo Harms, Jan |
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| contents | A new era of lunar exploration has begun with participation of all major space agencies. This activity brings opportunities for revolutionary science experiments and observatories on the Moon. The idea of a lunar gravitational-wave detector was already proposed during the Apollo program. The key characteristic of the Moon is that it is seismically extremely quiet. It was also pointed out that the permanently shadowed regions at the lunar poles provide ideal conditions for gravitational-wave detection. In recent years, three different detector concepts were proposed with varying levels of technological complexity and science potential. In this paper, we confront the three concepts in terms of their observational capabilities based on a first more detailed modeling of instrumental noise. We identify important technological challenges and potential show-stoppers. |
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| spellingShingle | Opportunities and limits of lunar gravitational-wave detection Cozzumbo, Andrea Mestichelli, Benedetta Mirabile, Marco Paiella, Lavinia Tissino, Jacopo Harms, Jan Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Instrumentation and Detectors A new era of lunar exploration has begun with participation of all major space agencies. This activity brings opportunities for revolutionary science experiments and observatories on the Moon. The idea of a lunar gravitational-wave detector was already proposed during the Apollo program. The key characteristic of the Moon is that it is seismically extremely quiet. It was also pointed out that the permanently shadowed regions at the lunar poles provide ideal conditions for gravitational-wave detection. In recent years, three different detector concepts were proposed with varying levels of technological complexity and science potential. In this paper, we confront the three concepts in terms of their observational capabilities based on a first more detailed modeling of instrumental noise. We identify important technological challenges and potential show-stoppers. |
| title | Opportunities and limits of lunar gravitational-wave detection |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology Instrumentation and Detectors |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2309.15160 |