Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Galaxies, I am pleased to announce the winner of the Galaxies 2020 Best Paper Award for Gravitational Wave Detectors.

The award has been granted to:

The Hunt for Environmental Noise in Virgo during the Third Observing Run
By: Maria Concetta Tringali, Irene Fiori, Federico Paoletti, Kamiel Janssens, Christos Karathanasis, Alexis Menéndez-Vázquez, Alba Romero-Rodríguez, Ryosuke Sugimoto, Tatsuki Washimi, Valerio Boschi, Antonino Chiummo, Marek Cieślar, Rosario De Rosa, Camilla De Rossi, Francesco Di Renzo, Ilaria Nardecchia, Antonio Pasqualetti, Antonio Pasqualetti, Barbara Patricelli, Paolo Ruggi and Neha Singh.
Galaxies 2020, 8(4), 82; doi: 10.3390/galaxies8040082 

The winner (corresponding author) will receive a prize of CHF 500, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Galaxies in 2022.

On behalf of the assessment committee, I congratulate the authors on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups for their contributions to the field of gravitational wave detectors as well as the Award Committee for voting and helping with the award.  

Kind regards,

Editor-in-Chief
Prof. Dr. Emilio Elizalde, Galaxies