We are pleased to announce that the project "Virgo-PL: Polish participation in the Virgo gravitational wave observatory" has received funding under the program "Support for the participation of Polish research teams in international research infrastructure projects" of the Ministry of Education and Science. The value of the funding is PLN 12,367,024.33.
The applicant is the consortium "Polish Virgo Project Consortium", which includes the Institute of Mathematics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IMPAN) - the leader, the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences (CAMK PAN), the Academic Computer Center Cyfronet, the AGH University of Science and Technology (Cyfronet), the National Center for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), the University of Białystok (UwB), the Jagiellonian University (UJ), the University of Warsaw (UW).
The aim of the project is to support participation of the Polish Virgo Project Consortium Institutions in the use and expansion of the Virgo gravitational wave detector, which is part of the global network of gravitational wave detectors in Europe (Virgo, GEO600), the USA (LIGO) and Japan (KAGRA). The project consists of seven tasks, which are the implementation of the agreement between the Polish Consortium and the European Gravitational Observatory (EGO) regarding the contribution to the Virgo research infrastructure. These tasks concern the financial contribution to EGO, contribution to improving the sensitivity of the Virgo detector, noise characteristics in the Virgo detector, contribution to the International Gravitational-Wave Observatory Network (IGWN) and analysis of data from the global network of gravitational wave detectors, and popularization of the Virgo project results.
The tasks carried out in CAMK PAN will mainly consist in creating a new network of seismic sensors and new tools for analyzing data from gravitational wave detectors within the IGWN.
