Status of LIGO

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4856, Issue , 2002, Pages 247-257

  Sanders, Gary H ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

General relativity; GEO; Gravitational waves; Gravity; LIGO; TAMA; Virgo

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER HARDWARE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERFEROMETERS; OBSERVATORIES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS;

DATA SYSTEM; OPTICAL CONFIGURATION; POWER RECYCLED INTERFEROMETERS; RESONANT MASS DETECTOR;

GRAVITY WAVES;

EID: 0038192189     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.459097     Document Type: Conference Paper

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