GW observatory · Proposed
Cosmic Explorer
A proposed United States third-generation gravitational-wave observatory with arms up to forty kilometres long — a scaled-up successor to LIGO that, with the Einstein Telescope, would open the distant gravitational-wave universe.
Detectors, messengers & sources
Knowledge connections
- Associated withLaser Interferometry
- Associated withGravitational-Wave Detection
- Associated withLIGO Hanford
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- LIGO Scientific CollaborationLIGO Scientific Collaboration & Virgo Collaboration
Direct detections of gravitational waves from compact-object mergers.