The Seismic Attenuation System (SAS) for the Advanced LIGO gravitational wave interferometric detectors

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

Volumn 598, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 737-753

  Stochino, Alberto ^a,b,c   Abbot, Benjamin ^b   Aso, Yoichi ^d   Barton, Mark ^a   Bertolini, Alessandro ^a   Boschi, Valerio ^a,c   Coyne, Dennis ^a   DeSalvo, Riccardo ^a   Galli, Carlo ^e   Huang, Yumei ^f   Ivanov, Alex ^a   Marka, Szabolcs ^d   Ottaway, David ^b   Sannibale, Virginio ^a   Vanni, Chiara ^e   Yamamoto, Hiroaki ^a   Yoshida, Sanichiro ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e Galli and Morelli srl   (Italy)

^f BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^g Department of Chemistry and Physics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Gravitational waves interferometers; Seismic isolation; Seismic noise

Indexed keywords

EARTHQUAKES; GRAVITATIONAL EFFECTS; GRAVITY WAVES; INTERFEROMETERS; INTERFEROMETRY; MEATS; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; SEISMOLOGY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

ADVANCED DETECTORS; COMMISSIONING TIMES; FREQUENCY RANGES; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE INTERFEROMETERS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTORS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVES INTERFEROMETERS; ISOLATION SYSTEMS; SEISMIC ATTENUATIONS; SEISMIC ISOLATION; SEISMIC NOISE; VACUUM CHAMBERS;

SEISMIC DESIGN;

EID: 57849133037     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2008.10.023     Document Type: Article

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