Lunar gravitational-wave (GW) detection has been under consideration since Apollo 17 when the Lunar Surface Gravimeter developed under the coordination of Joseph Weber was deployed on the Moon with the goal to observe lunar surface vibrations generated by passing GWs [1]. The experiment did not run with its targeted performance, but even if it had, we know today that it would not have been sensitive enough to detect GW signals. Vibrations caused by GWs are expected to be several orders of magnitude weaker than what the instrument was designed to observe. The main motivation to bring such an experiment to the Moon was that with the extremely low level of seismicity observed with previously deployed Apollo seismometers [2] (see figure 1), Weber suspected that GW signals could be detected.
Lunar Gravitational-wave Detection
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