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pith:2026:P3C2BRVHWQC234SUQTOGUSQ4CC

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Opportunities for Gravitational Wave Physics at the South Pole

C. A. Arg\"uelles, J. Mitchell, M. DuVernois, P. W. Graham, T. Kovachy

A long-baseline atom interferometer at the South Pole could detect gravitational waves in the decihertz band and improve global source localization.

arxiv:2605.14279 v1 · 2026-05-14 · astro-ph.IM · gr-qc · hep-ph · physics.atom-ph · physics.ins-det

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Claims

C1strongest claim

deploying a long-baseline atom interferometer at the South Pole, which has the potential to expand the global network of gravitational wave detectors while enabling precision tests of fundamental physics.

C2weakest assumption

That the practical engineering challenges of operating a large atom interferometer in the Antarctic environment can be solved at reasonable cost and that the seismic noise levels are low enough to reach the required sensitivity without additional unstated mitigations.

C3one line summary

The South Pole's low seismic noise, existing infrastructure, and geographic position make it a strong candidate site for a long-baseline atom interferometer to detect decihertz gravitational waves and strengthen global triangulation.

References

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[1] S. Dimopoulos, P. W. Graham, J. M. Hogan, M. A. Kasevich, and S. Rajendran, Phys. Rev. D78, 122002 (2008) 2008

[2] P. W. Graham, J. M. Hogan, M. A. Kasevich, and S. Rajendran, Phys. Rev. Lett.110, 171102 (2013). 9 2013

[3] N. Yu and M. Tinto, General Relativity and Gravitation43, 1943 (2011) 1943

[4] A. Abdalla, M. Abe, S. Abend, M. Abidi, M. Aidelsburger, A. Alibabaei, B. Allard, J. Antoniadis, G. Arduini, N. Augst, P. Balamatsias, A. Balaˇ z, H. Banks, R. L. Barcklay, M. Barone, M. Barsanti, M. 2025

[5] B. P. Abbottet al.(LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration), Phys. Rev. Lett.116, 061102 (2016) 2016

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:39:10.305886Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

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7ec5a0c6a7b405adf25484dc6a4a1c10a8e970aae4d1c0b31e7abb3633fce613

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arxiv: 2605.14279 · arxiv_version: 2605.14279v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.14279 · pith_short_12: P3C2BRVHWQC2 · pith_short_16: P3C2BRVHWQC234SU · pith_short_8: P3C2BRVH

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/P3C2BRVHWQC234SUQTOGUSQ4CC \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 7ec5a0c6a7b405adf25484dc6a4a1c10a8e970aae4d1c0b31e7abb3633fce613

Canonical record JSON

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