An investigation of eddy-current damping of multi-stage pendulum suspensions for use in interferometric gravitational wave detectors

Review of Scientific Instruments

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 4518-4522

  Plissi, M V ^a   Torrie, C I ^b   Barton, M ^b   Robertson, N A ^a,c   Grant, A ^a   Cantley, C A ^a   Strain, K A ^a   Willems, P A ^b   Romie, J H ^b   Skeldon, K D ^a   Perreur Lloyd, M M ^a   Jones, R A ^a   Hough, J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DAMPING; EDDY-CURRENT DAMPING; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; PENDULUM SUSPENSIONS;

ATTENUATION; DAMPING; EDDY CURRENTS; FREQUENCIES; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; PENDULUMS;

SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS);

EID: 10844241361     PISSN: 00346748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1795192     Document Type: Article

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