THE VIRGO INTERFEROMETER

Authors
CARON B DOMINJON A DREZEN C FLAMINIO R GRAVE X MARION F MASSONNET L MEHMEL C MORAND R MOURS B SANNIBALE V YVERT M BABUSCI D BELLUCCI S CANDUSSO S GIORDANO G MATONE G MACKOWSKI JM PINARD L BARONE F CALLONI E DIFIORE L FLAGIELLO M GARUFI F GRADO A LONGO M LOPS M MARANO S MILANO L SOLIMENO S BRISSON V CAVALIER F DAVIER M HELLO P HEUSSE P MANN P ACKER Y BARSUGLIA M BHAWAL B BONDU F BRILLET A HEITMANN H INNOCENT JM LATRACH L MAN CN PHAMTU M TOURNIER E TAUBMANN M VINET JY BOCCARA C GLEYZES P LORIETTE V ROGER JP CAGNOLI G GAMMAITONI L KOVALIK J MARCHESONI F PUNTURO M BECCARIA M BERNARDINI M BOUGLEUX E BRACCINI S BRADASCHIA C CELLA G CIAMPA A CUOCO E CURCI G DELFABBRO R DESALVO R DIVIRGILIO A ENARD D FERRANTE I FIDECARO F GIASSI A GIAZOTTO A HOLLOWAY L LAPENNA P LOSURDO G MANCINI S MAZZONI M PALLA F PAN HB PASSUELLO D PELFER P POGGIANI R STANGA R VICERE A ZHANG Z FERRARI V MAJORANA E PUPPO P RAPAGNANI P RICCI F
Citation
B. Caron et al., THE VIRGO INTERFEROMETER, Classical and quantum gravity, 14(6), 1997, pp. 1461-1469
Citations number
12
Categorie Soggetti
Physics
Journal title
Classical and quantum gravity → ACNP
ISSN journal
02649381
Volume
14
Issue
6
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1461 - 1469
Database
ISI
SICI code
0264-9381(1997)14:6<1461:TVI>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
The Virgo gravitational wave detector is an interferometer with 3 km l ong arms in construction near Pisa to be commissioned in the year 2000 . Virgo has been designed to achieve a strain sensitivity (SNR = 1) of a few times 10(-23) Hz-(1/2) at 200 Hz, A large effort has gone into the conception of the mirror suspension system, which is expected to r educe noise to the level of 10(-21) Hz(-1/2) at 10 HZ. The expected si gnals and main sources of noise are briefly discussed; the choices mad e are illustrated together with the present status of the experiment.