The first direct detection of gravitational waves on 14 September 2015, from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes, marked a milestone in astrophysics and inaugurated the era of multi-messenger astronomy. In the decade since, LVK interferometers have detected hundreds of mergers involving binary black holes, binary neutron stars, and mixed systems, offering valuable insights into compact...
One of the key components of the payload of the Lunar Gravitational-Wave Antenna is the inertial sensor, which measures the differential motion between the lunar surface and the inertial mass. To detect gravitational waves, the inertial mass motion must be read out with sub-femtometer precision.
In this talk, I introduce a laser interferometric displacement sensing scheme called heterodyne...
