Speaker
Lorenzo Pierini
(INFN Rome)
Description
Since the first discovery in 2015, the field of gravitational-wave searches has strongly developed, with a total of 90 confirmed detections during the first three observing runs of the Advanced LIGO/Virgo detectors. In this talk, I will present the current status of the Virgo detector and its contribution in the global network of Earth-based detectors. Then, I will discuss the various searches that are currently carried on, along with the recent findings and their scientific implications. Finally, I will discuss future upgrades of the detector and the prospects for the coming decades.
Author
Lorenzo Pierini
(INFN Rome)
