Stable operation of a 300-m laser interferometer with sufficient sensitivity to detect gravitational-wave events within our galaxy

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 86, Issue 18, 2001, Pages 3950-3954

  Ando, Masaki ^a   Arai, Koji ^b   Takahashi, Ryutaro ^b   Heinzel, Gerhard ^b   Kawamura, Seiji ^b   Tatsumi, Daisuke ^b   Kanda, Nobuyuki ^c   Tagoshi, Hideyuki ^d   Araya, Akito ^a   Asada, Hideki ^e   Aso, Youich ^a   Barton, Mark A ^a   Fujimoto, Masa Katsu ^b   Fukushima, Mitsuhiro ^b   Futamase, Toshifumi ^f   Hayama, Kazuhiro ^a   Horikoshi, Gen'ichi ^g   Ishizuka, Hideki ^a   Kamikubota, Norihiko ^g   Kawabe, Keita ^a   Kawashima, Nobuki ^h   Kobayashi, Yoshinori ^a   Kojima, Yasufumi ⁱ   Kondo, Kazuhiro ^a   Kozai, Yoshihide ^b   Kuroda, Kazuaki ^a   Matsuda, Namio ^j   Mio, Norikatsu ^a   Miura, Kazuyuki ^c   Miyakawa, Osamu ^a   Miyama, Shoken M ^b   Miyoki, Shinji ^a   Moriwaki, Shigenori ^a   Musha, Mitsuru ^k   Nagano, Shigeo ^l   Nakagawa, Ken Ichi ^k   Nakamura, Takashi ^m   Nakao, Ken Ichi ⁿ   Numata, Kenji ^a   Ogawa, Yujiro ^g   Ohashi, Masatake ^a   Ohishi, Naoko ^b   Okutomi, Satoshi ^a   Oohara, Ken Ichi ^o   Otsuka, Shigemi ^a   Saito, Yoshio ^g   Sasaki, Misao ^d   Sato, Shuichi ^a   Sekiya, Atsushi ^a   Shibata, Masaru ^d   Somiya, Kentaro ^a   Suzuki, Toshikazu ^g   Takamori, Akiteru ^a   Tanaka, Takahiro ^m   Taniguchi, Shinsuke ^a   Telada, Souichi ^p   Tochikubo, Kuniharu ^a   Tomaru, Takayuki ^a   Tsubono, Kimio ^a   Tsuda, Nobuhiro ^q   Uchiyama, Takashi ^g   Ueda, Akitoshi ^b   Ueda, Ken Ichi ^k   Waseda, Koichi ^b   Watanabe, Yuko ^c   Yakura, Hiromi ^c   Yamamoto, Kazuhiro ^a   Yamazaki, Toshitaka ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^c MIYAGI UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Japan)

^d OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g HIGH ENERGY ACCELERATOR RESEARCH ORGANIZATION KEK   (Japan)

^h KINKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁱ HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^j TOKYO DENKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^l MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR QUANTENOPTIK   (Germany)

^m KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

ⁿ Osaka Prefecture University   (Japan)

^o NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^p NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^q TOKAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; GALAXIES; INTERFEROMETERS; LASER APPLICATIONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

GRAVITATIONAL WAVE EVENT; STRAIN EQUIVALENT NOISE LEVEL;

GRAVITATION;

ASTRONOMY; DEVICES; GRAVITY; LASER; PROCEDURES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ASTRONOMY; GRAVITATION; LASERS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0035971297     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.3950     Document Type: Article

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