Complete model of a spherical gravitational wave detector with capacitive transducers: Calibration and sensitivity optimization

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Gottardi, Luciano ^a,b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

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EID: 33846407226     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.75.022002     Document Type: Article

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