gravitational-wave detectors
Gravitational Waves: Present Status and Future Prospectus
... tion detectors. The approved second generation detectors seek higher sensitivity in the 100 Hz regime and ex- tension to lower frequencies as the most promising and feasible directions to ...based ...
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Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run
... The detectors, two in Hanford, WA (H1 and H2) and one in Livingston, LA (L1), are power-recycled Fabry-Perot Michelson interferometers. The optical layout of the interferometers is shown in Figure 1. The ...
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Brownian Thermal Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors and Single Photon Optomechanics
... future gravitational-wave detectors may use different substrate and coating materials, situations may arise when the loss angle measured now does not correlate with the total coating brownian ...
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Coatings and surface treatments for enhanced performance suspensions for future gravitational wave detectors
... interferometric gravitational wave detectors such as Advanced LIGO (aLIGO) [1] are envisaged before the realisation of third- generation detectors such as the Einstein Telescope (ET) ...of ...
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Mitigating Noise in Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors
... in gravitational-wave detection [122] and scanning probe microscopy, optomechanical devices can also be used to probe the quantum behavior of mechanical ...interferometric gravitational wave ...
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Apparatus for dimensional characterization of fused silica fibers for the suspensions of advanced gravitational wave detectors
... of gravitational waves from astrophysical sources remains one of the most challenging problems faced by experimental ...interferometric gravitational wave detectors is thermal displacement ...
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Examination of Sufficient Conditions for Forming Mass of “Massive Graviton”, from Early Universe
... of gravitational wave detectors, that second generation gravitational wave detectors require high power lasers with several 100W of output power and with very low temporal and ...
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Constraints on cosmic strings from the LIGO-virgo gravitational-wave detectors
... of gravitational waves (GWs) produced by cusps are a promising observational ...Virgo gravitational wave detectors between 2005 and 2010, with over 625 days of live ...the gravitational ...
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Quantum correlation measurements in interferometric gravitational wave detectors
... Interferometric gravitational wave detectors have trig- gered extensive research in the field of quantum op- tics [1, 2]. The standard quantum limit [3, 4], related to the Heisenberg uncertainty ...
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Experimental demonstration of a gravitational wave detector configuration below the shot noise limit
... interferometric gravitational wave detectors for many ...limited gravitational wave detector’s ...a gravitational wave detector configuration had not been experimentally ...
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Predictions for the rates of compact binary coalescences observable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors
... Recently, several authors have attempted to extract rates for NS-NS and NS-BH coalescences from the rates of observed short hard gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs). In particular, some models favor dynamical formation scenarios in ...
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Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts
... Even in the absence of real gravitational-wave signals, one expects some coincidences between random noise- generated events. We estimate this background rate by repeating the coincidence procedure after ...
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Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA
... The multimessenger observations for GW170817 allow for different studies ranging from astrophysics to fundamental physics and cosmology. The GW and gamma-ray data show that the BNS coalescence and the short gamma-ray are ...
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A source of illumination for low-noise 'Violin-Mode' shadow sensors, intended for use in interferometric gravitational wave detectors
... Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) gravitational wave ...displacement detectors, located at a distance of 74 fibre diameters ...
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An investigation of eddy-current damping of multi-stage pendulum suspensions for use in interferometric gravitational wave detectors
... A triple pendulum suspension that is similar in design to a GEO 600 test mass suspension was used ( see Fig. 2 ) . The mass of each stage of the pendulum is ⬃ 6 kg and there are two cantilever spring stages for enhanced ...
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Beating the spin-down limit on gravitational wave emission from the crab pulsar
... which accounts for less than half the spin-down power (e.g., Davidson & Fesen 1985). There have been many attempts to estimate the power involved in the observed acceleration of optical filaments, for example ...
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All sky search for long duration gravitational wave transients in the second Advanced LIGO observing run
... The pipelines used are the long-duration configura- tion of Coherent WaveBurst (cWB) (Klimenko et al. 2016), two different versions of the Stochastic Transient Analysis Multi-detector Pipeline - all sky (STAMP- AS) ...
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Topics in Gravitational Wave Physics
... The Einstein evolution equations are solved with the pseudo-spectral evolution code described in [6]. This code evolves a first-order representation [32] of the generalized harmonic system [33, 34]. We use boundary ...
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Sound Wave as a Particular Case of the Gravitational Wave
... sound wave is plane the equation of which is obtained from the generalized equation of gravitational waves on the assumption of a and ideality of the ...acoustic wave is not gravitational is ...
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Observation of a kilogram-scale oscillator near its quantum ground state
... a gravitational wave as a mechanically free mass above the natural resonant ...present detectors are sensitive to changes in relative mirror displacements of about 10 −18 m in a 100 Hz band centered ...
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