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most citedSensitivity Studies for Third-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories

1.1k citations · 2k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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19 papers

astro-ph.IM2024★ 2 cited

Detailed Analysis of Local Climate at the CTAO-North Site on La Palma from 20 Years of MAGIC Weather Station Data

Markus Gaug, Alessandro Longo, Stefano Bianchi +8

The Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos will host the northern site of the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory (CTAO), in an area about 200 m below the mountain rim, where th…

gr-qc2022★ 18 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: tools

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

Detector characterization and data quality studies -- collectively referred to as {\em DetChar} activities in this article -- are paramount to the scientific exploitation of the jo…

gr-qc2022★ 60 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality: results from the O3 run

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave (GW) signals in the past few years, alongside the two Adv…

gr-qc2022★ 7 cited

Virgo Detector Characterization and Data Quality during the O3 run

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +491

The Advanced Virgo detector has contributed with its data to the rapid growth of the number of detected gravitational-wave signals in the past few years, alongside the two LIGO ins…

gr-qc2022★ 22 cited

The Virgo O3 run and the impact of the environment

F. Acernese, M. Agathos, A. Ain +486

Sources of geophysical noise (such as wind, sea waves and earthquakes) or of anthropogenic noise impact ground-based gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, causing transient…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 21 cited

Daily monitoring of scattered light noise due to microseismic variability at the Virgo interferometer

Alessandro Longo, Stefano Bianchi, Guillermo Valdes +2

Data acquired by the Virgo interferometer during the second part of the O3 scientific run, referred to as O3b, were analysed with the aim of characterising the onset and time evolu…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 12 cited

Gwadaptive_scattering: an automated pipeline for scattered light noise characterization

Stefano Bianchi, Alessandro Longo, Guillermo Valdes +2

Scattered light noise affects the sensitivity of gravitational waves detectors. The characterization of such noise is needed to mitigate it. The time-varying filter empirical mode…

physics.ao-ph2020

Adaptive time series analysis of Mauna Loa CO2 data: tvf-EMD based detrend and extraction of seasonal variability

Stefano Bianchi, Alessandro Longo, Wolfango Plastino

Adaptive time series analysis has been applied to investigate variability of CO2 concentration data, sampled weekly at Mauna Loa monitoring station. Due to its ability to mitigate…

physics.ins-det2020★ 54 cited

Site-selection criteria for the Einstein Telescope

Florian Amann, Fabio Bonsignorio, Tomasz Bulik +29

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed next-generation, underground gravitational-wave (GW) detector to be based in Europe. It will provide about an order of magnitude sensitivi…

gr-qc2020

Gödel spacetime, planar geodesics and the Möbius map

Donato Bini, Andrea Geralico, Robert T. Jantzen +1

Timelike geodesics on a hyperplane orthogonal to the symmetry axis of the Gödel spacetime appear to be elliptic-like if standard coordinates naturally adapted to the cylindrical sy…

astro-ph.IM2020

Scattered light noise characterisation at the Virgo interferometer with tvf-EMD adaptive algorithm

Alessandro Longo, Stefano Bianchi, Wolfango Plastino +5

A methodology of adaptive time series analysis, based on Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), and on its time varying version tvf-EMD has been applied to strain data from the gravit…

gr-qc2019★ 5 cited

Scattering of uncharged particles in the field of two extremely charged black holes

Donato Bini, Andrea Geralico, Gabriele Gionti +2

We investigate the motion of uncharged particles scattered by a binary system consisting of extremely charged black holes in equilibrium as described by the Majumdar-Papapetrou sol…

gr-qc2019★ 3 cited

Godel spacetime: elliptic-like geodesics and gyroscope precession

Donato Bini, Andrea Geralico, Robert T. Jantzen +1

We study elliptic-like geodesic motion on hyperplanes orthogonal to the cylindrical symmetry axes of the Godel spacetime by using an eccentricity-semi-latus rectum parametrization…

gr-qc2019★ 98 cited

All-sky search for short gravitational-wave bursts in the second Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1186

We present the results of a search for short-duration gravitational-wave transients in the data from the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. We search for gra…

gr-qc2018★ 9 cited

Cylindrical gravitational waves: C-energy, super-energy and associated dynamical effects

Donato Bini, Andrea Geralico, Wolfango Plastino

The energy content of cylindrical gravitational wave spacetimes is analyzed by considering two local descriptions of energy associated with the gravitational field, namely those ba…

physics.geo-ph2018★ 12 cited

tvf-EMD based time series analysis of Be of the CTBTO-IMS network

Alessandro Longo, Stefano Bianchi, Wolfango Plastino

A methodology of adaptive time series analysis based on Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) has been employed to investigate Be activity concentration variability, along with…

gr-qc2012★ 548 cited

Scientific Objectives of Einstein Telescope

B. Sathyaprakash, M. Abernathy, F. Acernese +222

The advanced interferometer network will herald a new era in observational astronomy. There is a very strong science case to go beyond the advanced detector network and build detec…

gr-qc2011★ 12 cited

Scientific Potential of Einstein Telescope

B. Sathyaprakash, M. Abernathy, F. Acernese +138

Einstein gravitational-wave Telescope (ET) is a design study funded by the European Commission to explore the technological challenges of and scientific benefits from building a th…

gr-qc2010★ 1.1k cited

Sensitivity Studies for Third-Generation Gravitational Wave Observatories

S. Hild, M. Abernathy, F. Acernese +136

Advanced gravitational wave detectors, currently under construction, are expected to directly observe gravitational wave signals of astrophysical origin. The Einstein Telescope, a…