The Environmental Monitoring System of VIRGO Antenna for Gravitational Waves Detection

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 49, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 405-410

  Barone, F ^a   De Rosa, R ^b   Eleuteri, A ^b   Milano, L ^b   Qipiani, K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI NAPOLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data acquisition (DAQ); gravitational waves; interferometry; monitoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008055742     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: 15581578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2002.1003761     Document Type: Article

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