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Wideband dual sphere detector of gravitational waves.
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Physical review letters [Phys Rev Lett] 2001 Jul 16; Vol. 87 (3), pp. 031101. Date of Electronic Publication: 2001 Jun 28. - Publication Year :
- 2001
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Abstract
- We present the concept of a sensitive and broadband resonant mass gravitational wave detector. A massive sphere is suspended inside a second hollow one. Short, high-finesse Fabry-Perot optical cavities read out the differential displacements of the two spheres as their quadrupole modes are excited. At cryogenic temperatures, one approaches the standard quantum limit for broadband operation with reasonable choices for the cavity finesses and the intracavity light power. A molybdenum detector, of overall size of 2 m, would reach spectral strain sensitivities of 2x10(-23) Hz(-1/2) between 1000 and 3000 Hz.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0031-9007
- Volume :
- 87
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Physical review letters
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11461547
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.87.031101