Advanced LIGO status

Autor: Sheila Dwyer, Bernard F Whiting, Richard Savage
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 610:012013
ISSN: 1742-6596
1742-6588
DOI: 10.1088/1742-6596/610/1/012013
Popis: Advanced LIGO is currently in the final stages of installation and early commissioning. In the design of Advanced LIGO a key goal was the ability to detect gravitational waves from compact object binary inspirals, as these are thought to be the most likely candidates for early detections with ground based interferometers. Special emphasis has been placed on improving the low frequency sensitivity relative to the first generations of LIGO, in addition to improving the high frequency sensitivity by increasing the laser power. The interferometer in Livingston Louisiana has been locked (continuously held within the linear operating range) and noise investigations have begun, and the major installation activities for the interferometer at Hanford, Washington are completed.
Databáze: OpenAIRE