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; Hughey, Brennan; Katsavounidis, Erotokritos; MacInnis, Myron E.; Mason, Kenneth R.; Matichard, Fabrice; Mavalvala, Nergis; Mittleman, Richard K.; Shapiro, B.; Shoemaker, David H.; Smith, Nicolas D.; Stein, Andrew J.; Stein, Leo C.; Walden, Samuel J.; Weiss, Rainer; Wipf, Christopher C.; ... Show more Show less
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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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2010-08Department
Lincoln Laboratory; Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics; MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research; LIGO (Observatory : Massachusetts Institute of Technology)Journal
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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01689002
1872-9576