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Gravitational wave detection with optical atomic clocks in space

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Gravitational wave detection with optical atomic clocks in space

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  • Author: Shimon Kolkowitz
With the numerous gravitational wave (GW) events detected by the LIGO/VIRGO collaboration over the past 5 years[1–3], gravitational wave astronomy has emerged as a powerful tool with which to study the universe, illuminating previously invisible astrophysical phenomena. While there is no doubt that LIGO and other terrestrial detectors will observe many additional GW events in the coming years, terrestrial detectors are only sensitive to GWs with frequencies above ∼10 Hz, due to seismic and Newtonian noise [1, 4]. The desire to observe a wider range of astrophysical phenomena has motivated proposals for larger scale space-based GW detectors [4–11].

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