Australian Partnership for Breakthrough Science in the Advanced LIGO+ Era. Australia is currently a global leader in gravitational-wave astrophysics, through key technological and scientific contribut

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Australian Partnership for Breakthrough Science in the Advanced LIGO+ Era. Australia is currently a global leader in gravitational-wave astrophysics, through key technological and scientific contributions to the Advanced LIGO+ Observatories located in the USA. Gravitational-wave observatories provide a fundamentally new way to observe the Universe, allowing us to witness and explore the nature of extraordinarily powerful events such as the mergers of binary black holes and neutron stars. In partnership with the USA and UK, we expect to provide crucial enhancements enabling discoveries of hundreds of gravitational wave events per year. The project will maintain Australia's global leadership in the field, and inspire our next generation of scientists and researchers in this exciting domain.. Scheme: Linkage Infrastructure, Equipment and Facilities. Field: 5101 - Astronomical Sciences. Lead: A/Prof Bram Slagmolen