Improvement of the seismic noise attenuation performance of the Monolithic Geometric Anti-Spring filters for gravitational wave interferometric detectors

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 580, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1559-1564

  Stochino, Alberto ^a,c   DeSalvo, Riccardo ^c   Huang, Yumei ^b,c   Sannibale, Virginio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Center Of Percussion; Gravitational Waves; Mechanical filters; Seismic attenuation

Indexed keywords

DETECTORS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETERS;

CENTER OF PERCUSSION; FREQUENCY SATURATION; MECHANICAL FILTERS; SEISMIC ATTENUATION;

SEISMIC PROSPECTING;

EID: 34548696384     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2007.06.029     Document Type: Article

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