Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna

Jan Harms; Filippo Ambrosino; Lorella Angelini; Valentina Braito; Marica Branchesi; Enzo Brocato; Enrico Cappellaro; Eugenio Coccia; Michael Coughlin; Roberto Della Ceca; Massimo Della Valle; Cesare Dionisio; Costanzo Federico; Michelangelo Formisano; Alessandro Frigeri; Aniello Grado; Luca Izzo; Augusto Marcelli; Andrea Maselli; Claudio Pernechele; Marco Olivieri; Andrea Possenti; Samuele Ronchini; Roberto Serafinelli; Paola Severgnini; Maila Agostini; Francesca Badaracco; Alessandro Bertolini; Lorenzo Betti; Marta Maria Civitani; Christophe Collette; Stefano Covino; Simone Dall'Osso; Paolo D'Avanzo; Riccardo DeSalvo; Matteo Di Giovanni; Mauro Focardi; Carlo Giunchi; Joris van Heijningen; Nandita Khetan; Daniele Melini; Giuseppe Mitri; Conor Mow-Lowry; Luca Naponiello; Vladimiro Noce; Gor Oganesyan; Emanuele Pace; Ho Jung Paik; Alessandro Pajewski; Eliana Palazzi; Marco Pallavicini; Giovanni Pareschi; Riccardo Pozzobon; Ashish Sharma; Giorgio Spada; Ruggero Stanga; Gianpiero Tagliaferri; John F. Wardle; Raffaele Votta; The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

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Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna

Jan Harms, Filippo Ambrosino, Lorella Angelini, Valentina Braito, Marica Branchesi, Enzo Brocato, Enrico Cappellaro, Eugenio Coccia, Michael Coughlin, Roberto Della Ceca, …

The Astrophysical journal, Vol.910(1), pp.1-22

03/01/2021

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abe5a7

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Monitoring of vibrational eigenmodes of an elastic body excited by gravitational waves was one of the first concepts proposed for the detection of gravitational waves. At laboratory scale, these experiments became known as resonant bar detectors first developed by Joseph Weber in the 1960s. Due to the dimensions of these bars, the targeted signal frequencies were in the kHz range. Weber also pointed out that monitoring of vibrations of Earth or the Moon could reveal gravitational waves in the mHz band. His Lunar Surface Gravimeter experiment deployed on the Moon by the Apollo 17 crew had a technical failure, which greatly reduced the science scope of the experiment. In this article, we revisit the idea and propose a Lunar Gravitational-Wave Antenna (LGWA). We find that LGWA could become an important partner observatory for joint observations with the space-borne, laser-interferometric detector LISA and at the same time contribute an independent science case due to LGWA's unique features. Technical challenges need to be overcome for the deployment of the experiment, and development of inertial vibration sensor technology lays out a future path for this exciting detector concept.

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Title: Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna; First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring
Creators: Jan Harms - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Filippo Ambrosino - INAF Osservatorio Astron Roma, Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Rome, Italy
Lorella Angelini - NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Astroparticle Phys, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
Valentina Braito - INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 21, I-20121 Milan, Italy
Marica Branchesi - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Enzo Brocato - INAF Osservatorio Astron Roma, Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Rome, Italy
Enrico Cappellaro - INAF Osservatorio Astron Padova, Vicolo Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padua, Italy
Eugenio Coccia - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Michael Coughlin - Univ Minnesota, Sch Phys & Astron, Minneapolis, MN 55455 USA
Roberto Della Ceca - INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 21, I-20121 Milan, Italy
Massimo Della Valle - INAF Osservatorio Astron Capodimonte, Salita Moiariello 16, I-80131 Naples, Italy
Cesare Dionisio - SRL
Costanzo Federico - INAF Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali, Via Fosso Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Rome, Italy
Michelangelo Formisano - INAF Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali, Via Fosso Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Rome, Italy
Alessandro Frigeri - INAF Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali, Via Fosso Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Rome, Italy
Aniello Grado - INAF Osservatorio Astron Capodimonte, Salita Moiariello 16, I-80131 Naples, Italy
Luca Izzo - Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, DARK, Jagtvej 128, DK-2200 Copenhagen O, Denmark
Augusto Marcelli - INFN Lab Nazl Frascati, Via E Fermi 54,POB 13, I-00044 Frascati, RM, Italy
Andrea Maselli - Sapienza Univ Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, Italy
Claudio Pernechele - INAF Osservatorio Astron Padova, Vicolo Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padua, Italy
Marco Olivieri - INGV, Sez Bologna, Via Donato Creti 12, I-40128 Bologna, Italy
Andrea Possenti - INAF Osservatorio Astron Cagliari, Via Sci 5, I-09047 Selargius, Italy
Samuele Ronchini - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Roberto Serafinelli - INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 21, I-20121 Milan, Italy
Paola Severgnini - INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 21, I-20121 Milan, Italy
Maila Agostini - Osservatorio Polifunzionale Chianti, SP 101 Castellina Chianti, Barberino Val Delsa, Italy
Francesca Badaracco - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Alessandro Bertolini - Nikhef, Sci Pk 105, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lorenzo Betti - Osservatorio Polifunzionale Chianti, SP 101 Castellina Chianti, Barberino Val Delsa, Italy
Marta Maria Civitani - INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 21, I-20121 Milan, Italy
Christophe Collette - Univ Liege, Aerosp & Mech Engn Dept, Precis Mech Lab, 9 Allee Decouverte, B-4000 Liege, Belgium
Stefano Covino - INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 21, I-20121 Milan, Italy
Simone Dall'Osso - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Paolo D'Avanzo - INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 21, I-20121 Milan, Italy
Riccardo DeSalvo - Univ Sannio Benevento, Cso Garibaldi 107, I-82100 Benevento, Italy
Matteo Di Giovanni - INGV, Sez Sismol & Tettonofis, Via Vigna Murata 605, I-00143 Rome, Italy
Mauro Focardi - Florence
Carlo Giunchi - INGV, Sez Pisa, Via Cesare Battisti 53, I-56125 Pisa, Italy
Joris van Heijningen - Catholic Univ Louvain, Ctr Cosmol Particle Phys & Phenomenol CP3, B-1348 Louvain La Neuve, Belgium
Nandita Khetan - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Daniele Melini - INGV, Sez Sismol & Tettonofis, Via Vigna Murata 605, I-00143 Rome, Italy
Giuseppe Mitri - Int Res Sch Planetary Sci, Viale Pindaro 42, I-65127 Pescara, Italy
Conor Mow-Lowry - Vrije Univ Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
Luca Naponiello - Osservatorio Polifunzionale Chianti, SP 101 Castellina Chianti, Barberino Val Delsa, Italy
Vladimiro Noce - Osservatorio Polifunzionale Chianti, SP 101 Castellina Chianti, Barberino Val Delsa, Italy
Gor Oganesyan - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Emanuele Pace - Osservatorio Polifunzionale Chianti, SP 101 Castellina Chianti, Barberino Val Delsa, Italy
Ho Jung Paik - Univ Maryland, Dept Phys, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
Alessandro Pajewski - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Eliana Palazzi - INAF Osservatorio Astrofis & Sci Spazio Bologna, Via Piero Gobetti 93-3, I-40129 Bologna, Italy
Marco Pallavicini - Genoa
Giovanni Pareschi - INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 21, I-20121 Milan, Italy
Riccardo Pozzobon - Univ Padua, Dept Geosci, Via Giovanni Gradenigo 6, I-35131 Padua, Italy
Ashish Sharma - Gran Sasso Sci Inst GSSI, I-67100 Laquila, Italy
Giorgio Spada - Univ Bologna, Dipartimento Fis & Astron DIFA, Via Irnerio 46, I-40126 Bologna, Italy
Ruggero Stanga - Osservatorio Polifunzionale Chianti, SP 101 Castellina Chianti, Barberino Val Delsa, Italy
Gianpiero Tagliaferri - INAF Osservatorio Astron Brera, Via Brera 21, I-20121 Milan, Italy
John F. Wardle - Brandeis University, Martin A. Fisher School of Physics
Raffaele Votta - Italian Aerosp Res Ctr CIRA, Space Dept, Via Maiorise Snc, Capua, CE, Italy
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (Author)
Publication Details: The Astrophysical journal, Vol.910(1), pp.1-22
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd
Number of pages: 22
Grant note: 2017SYRTCN; 20179ZF5KS / PRIN-MIUR 2017 B81I18001170001 / Amaldi Research Center - MIUR; Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (MIUR) I/004/11/4 / Italian Space Agency, contract ASI/INAF 2017-14-H.0 / ASI-INAF; Istituto Nazionale Astrofisica (INAF); Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
Identifiers: 9924117859901921
Academic Unit: Martin A. Fisher School of Physics
Language: English
Resource Type: Journal article

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