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20042026
most citedAdvanced Virgo: a 2nd generation interferometric gravitational wave detector

4.2k citations · 7.3k across the 33 of their papers we have counts for

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35 papers

gr-qc2026

Advanced Virgo during the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA fourth observing run

Virgo Collaboration, F Acernese, A Agapito +546

From April 10, 2024 to November 18, 2025 Advanced Virgo participated in the fourth observing run of the network of gravitational-wave detectors, together with Advanced LIGO and KAG…

astro-ph.IM2026

Advanced Virgo Plus for O5 -- Design Report Overview

F. Acernese, A. Agapito, D. Agarwal +578

This document presents an overview of the design, implementation, and expected performance of the Advanced Virgo Plus (AdV+) upgrades in view of the O5 observing run. Following the…

gr-qc2025★ 97 cited

The Science of the Einstein Telescope

Adrian Abac, Raul Abramo, Simone Albanesi +485

Einstein Telescope (ET) is the European project for a gravitational-wave (GW) observatory of third-generation. In this paper we present a comprehensive discussion of its science ob…

gr-qc2025★ 4 cited

The impact of local noise recorded at the ET candidate sites on the signal to noise ratio of CBC gravitational wave signals for the ET triangle configuration

Matteo Di Giovanni, Davide Rozza, Rosario De Rosa +17

We present an evaluation of how site dependent noise can affect the signal to noise ratio (SNR) of compact binary coalescence (CBC) signals in the future 3rd generation gravitation…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 17 cited

Cryogenic payloads for the Einstein Telescope -- Baseline design with heat extraction, suspension thermal noise modelling and sensitivity analyses

Xhesika Koroveshi, Lennard Busch, Ettore Majorana +5

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a third generation gravitational wave detector that includes a room-temperature high-frequency (ET-HF) and a cryogenic low-frequency laser interferom…

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…