Improving the sensitivity of future GW observatories in the 1-10 Hz band: Newtonian and seismic noise

General Relativity and Gravitation

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 623-656

  Beker, M G ^a   Cella, G ^b   DeSalvo, R ^c   Doets, M ^a   Grote, H ^d,e   Harms, J ^f   Hennes, E ^a   Mandic, V ^f   Rabeling, D S ^a,g   van den Brand, J F J ^a,g   van Leeuwen, C M ^a,g  

^a NIKHEF   (Netherlands)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^e LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^g VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gravitational waves; Noises

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251598109     PISSN: 00017701     EISSN: 15729532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10714-010-1011-7     Document Type: Article

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