Limits on the sensitivity of spherical gravitational wave detectors and on the accuracy of reconstructed signals

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 564-587

  Stevenson, Thomas R ^a  

^a Bldg 142   (United States)

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EID: 0001420929     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.56.564     Document Type: Article

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