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

4.2k citations · 6.2k across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

gr-qc2026

Impact of site-dependent noise configurations on Einstein Telescope science at low frequency

Francesco Crescimbeni, Matteo Di Giovanni, Davide Rozza +9

We investigate how site-dependent Newtonian noise configurations affect the scientific performance of the Einstein Telescope (ET), a third-generation gravitational-wave observatory…

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…

gr-qc2026

The impact of seasonality over the sensitivity of Einstein Telescope and the SNR of CBC signals at the Sardinia candidate site

Matteo Di Giovanni, Davide Rozza, Giovanni Diaferia +14

This work presents the first investigation of the impact of seasonal variations in seismic noise on the low-frequency performance of the Einstein Telescope (ET) at the Sardinia can…

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★ 2 cited

Decadal upgrade strategy for KAGRA toward post-O5 gravitational-wave astronomy

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +150

The KAGRA Collaboration has investigated a ten-year upgrade strategy for the KAGRA gravitational wave detector, considering a total of 14 upgrade options that vary in mirror mass,…

gr-qc2025

Identification of Noise-Associated Glitches in KAGRA O3GK with Hveto

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, M. Aoumi +148

Transient noise ("glitches") in gravitational wave detectors can mimic or obscure true signals, significantly reducing detection sensitivity. Identifying and excluding glitch-conta…

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…

gr-qc2024★ 17 cited

Correlated 0.01Hz-40Hz seismic and Newtonian noise and its impact on future gravitational-wave detectors

Kamiel Janssens, Guillaume Boileau, Nelson Christensen +22

We report correlations in underground seismic measurements with horizontal separations of several hundreds of meters to a few kilometers in the frequency range 0.01Hz to 40Hz. Thes…

gr-qc2022

Input optics systems of the KAGRA detector during O3GK

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +246

KAGRA, the underground and cryogenic gravitational-wave detector, was operated for its solo observation from February 25th to March 10th, 2020, and its first joint observation with…

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…

cond-mat.supr-con2022★ 2 cited

Quantum zero point electromagnetic energy difference between the superconducting and the normal phase in a HTc superconducting metal bulk sample

Annalisa Allocca, Saverio Avino, Sergio Balestrieri +31

We provide a novel methodological approach to the estimate of the change of the Quantum Vacuum electromagnetic energy density in a High critical Temperature superconducting metal b…

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…

astro-ph.IM2022

Tunnel configurations and seismic isolation optimization in underground gravitational wave detectors

Florian Amann, Francesca Badaracco, Riccardo DeSalvo +4

Gravitational wave detectors like the Einstein Telescope will be built a few hundred meters under Earth's surface to reduce both direct seismic and Newtonian noise. Underground fac…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 30 cited

Performance of the KAGRA detector during the first joint observation with GEO 600 (O3GK)

KAGRA Collaboration, H. Abe, R. X. Adhikari +212

KAGRA, the kilometer-scale underground gravitational-wave detector, is located at Kamioka, Japan. In April 2020, an astrophysics observation was performed at the KAGRA detector in…

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…

gr-qc2022★ 17 cited

A lower limit for Newtonian-noise models of the Einstein Telescope

Jan Harms, Luca Naticchioni, Enrico Calloni +3

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed third-generation gravitational-wave (GW) underground observatory. It will have greatly increased sensitivity compared to current GW detect…

quant-ph2022

Casimir energy for N superconducting cavities: a model for the YBCO (BSCCO)

A. Allocca, S. Avino, S. Balestrieri +31

In this paper we study the Casimir energy of a sample made by N cavities, with N >> 1, across the transition from the metallic to the superconducting phase of the constituting plat…

physics.geo-ph2021

Seismic noise study in the underground Baksan Neutrino Observatory

L Naticchioni, N Iudochkin, V Yushkin +4

In this paper we report a study of the seismic noise measured in the underground Baksan Neutrino Observatory. The main spectral feature below 1 is the oceanic microseism, whil…

gr-qc2020★ 9 cited

Overview of KAGRA : KAGRA science

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +240

KAGRA is a newly build gravitational-wave observatory, a laser interferometer with 3 km arm length, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. In this paper in the series of KAGRA-featured a…

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…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 13 cited

Application of the independent component analysis to the iKAGRA data

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +244

We apply the independent component analysis (ICA) to the real data from a gravitational wave detector for the first time. Specifically we use the iKAGRA data taken in April 2016, a…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 149 cited

All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1130

We present results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves (CWs), which can be produced by fast-spinning neutron stars with an asymmetry around their rotation axis,…