Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run
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Barnum, Sam
Barsotti, Lisa
Blackburn, Lindy
Bodiya, Timothy P.
Corbitt, Thomas R.
Donovan, Frederick J.
Evans, Matthew J.
Foley, Stephany
Fritschel, Peter K.
Harry, Gregory
Date Issued
August 2010
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
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Elsevier
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Abadie, J., B.P. Abbott, R. Abbott, M. Abernathy, C. Adams, R. Adhikari, P. Ajith, et al. “Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run.” Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 624, no. 1 (December 2010): 223–240.
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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a network of three detectors built to detect local perturbations in the space–time metric from astrophysical sources. These detectors, two in Hanford, WA and one in Livingston, LA, are power-recycled Fabry-Perot Michelson interferometers. In their fifth science run (S5), between November 2005 and October 2007, these detectors accumulated one year of triple coincident data while operating at their designed sensitivity. In this paper, we describe the calibration of the instruments in the S5 data set, including measurement techniques and uncertainty estimation.
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Lincoln Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.07.089
