High-vacuum-compatible high-power Faraday isolators for gravitational-wave interferometers [PDF]
, 2012 Faraday isolators play a key role in the operation of large-scale gravitational-wave detectors. Second-generation gravitational-wave interferometers such as the Advanced Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Advanced Virgo will ...
Canuel, Benjamin +16 more
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Review of closed drift thruster neutral flow dynamics
AIP Advances, 2023 Operation of closed drift thruster (CDT) relies mainly on neutral gas, whose trajectory and distribution in the flow field have a significant influence on performance.
Shixu Lu +7 more
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A Broadband Signal Recycling Scheme for Approaching the Quantum Limit from Optical Losses
Galaxies, 2021 Quantum noise limits the sensitivity of laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Given the state-of-the-art optics, the optical losses define the lower bound of the best possible quantum-limited detector sensitivity.
Teng Zhang, Joe Bentley, Haixing Miao
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Lunar Gravitational-wave Antenna
The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 Abstract Monitoring of vibrational eigenmodes of an elastic body excited by gravitational waves was one of the first concepts proposed for the detection of gravitational waves. At laboratory scale, these experiments became known as resonant bar detectors first developed by Joseph Weber in the 1960s.
Jan Harms +57 more
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A First Comparison of SLOPE and Other LIGO Burst Event Trigger Generators [PDF]
, 2006 A number of different methods have been proposed to identify unanticipated burst sources of gravitational waves in data arising from LIGO and other gravitational wave detectors.
Amber L Stuver +7 more
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Gravitational waves from self-ordering scalar fields [PDF]
, 2009 Gravitational waves were copiously produced in the early Universe whenever the processes taking place were sufficiently violent. The spectra of several of these gravitational wave backgrounds on subhorizon scales have been extensively studied in the ...
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Reflection of electromagnetic waves from mixtures of plane gravitational and scalar waves [PDF]
, 2006 We consider colliding wave packets consisting of hybrid mixtures of electromagnetic, gravitational and scalar waves. Irrespective of the scalar field, the electromagnetic wave still reflects from the gravitational wave.
A. Badawi +6 more
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No tension between assembly models of super massive black hole binaries and pulsar observations
Nature Communications, 2018 Pulsar timing arrays enable the search for the isotropic gravitational-wave (GW) background originating from super massive black hole binary populations, but impose a stringent upper limit on the GW characteristic amplitude.
Hannah Middleton +4 more
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Pseudoplane-wave gravitational calibrator for gravitational wave observatories
Physical Review D, 2023 The precisions of existing gravitational calibrators for gravitational wave observatories are limited by their dependence on the relative position between the calibrators and the observatory's test masses. Here we present a novel geometry consisting of four quadrupole rotors placed at the vertices of a rectangle centered on the test mass.
M. P. Ross +10 more
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An information-theoretic approach to the gravitational-wave burst detection problem [PDF]
, 2017 The observational era of gravitational-wave astronomy began in the Fall of 2015 with the detection of GW150914. One potential type of detectable gravitational wave is short-duration gravitational-wave bursts, whose waveforms can be difficult to predict ...
Essick, Reed +4 more
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