The Italian government is fully behind the Sos Enattos site in Sardinia's bid to host the future gravitational wave Einstein Telescope, Premier Mario Draghi wrote to the president of the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Antonio Zoccoli, on Tuesday.
Italy and the Netherlands have so far put in bids to host the
telescope.
The Einstein Telescope (ET) or Einstein Observatory, is a
proposed third-generation ground-based gravitational wave
detector, currently under study by some institutions in the
European Union.
It will be able to test Einstein's general theory of relativity
in strong field conditions and realize precision gravitational
wave astronomy.
The ET is a design study project supported by the European
Commission under the Framework Programme 7 (FP7).
It concerns the study and the conceptual design for a new
research infrastructure in the emergent field of
gravitational-wave astronomy.
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