PROJECT VIRGO - INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES

Authors
HELLO P
Citation
P. Hello, PROJECT VIRGO - INTERFEROMETRIC DETECTION OF GRAVITATIONAL-WAVES, Annales de physique, 20(2), 1995, pp. 53-62
Citations number
13
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Annales de physique → ACNP
ISSN journal
00034169
Volume
20
Issue
2
Year of publication
1995
Supplement
S
Pages
53 - 62
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-4169(1995)20:2<53:PV-IDO>2.0.ZU;2-R
Abstract
The French-Italian collaboration VIRGO is about to build a kilometric interferometer for the detection of gravitational waves from cosmic so urces. The sensitivity level (spectral density) to reach is about h ap proximate to 3 10-23 Hz(-1/2), in the frequency window [10 Hz, 10 kHz] , in order to observe at least some events per year. We present the me ans of decreasing the noise sources together with the technological ef forts to achieve.