Journal article
Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run
J Abadie, BP Abbott, R Abbott, M Abernathy, C Adams, R Adhikari, P Ajith, B Allen, G Allen, E Amador Ceron, RS Amin, SB Anderson, WG Anderson, MA Arain, M Araya, M Aronsson, Y Aso, S Aston, DE Atkinson, P Aufmuth Show all
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A Accelerators Spectrometers Detectors and Associated Equipment | ELSEVIER | Published : 2010
Abstract
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a network of three detectors built to detect local perturbations in the spacetime 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. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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Awarded by National Science Foundation
Funding Acknowledgements
The authors gratefully acknowledge the support of the United States National Science Foundation for the construction and operation of the LIGO Laboratory and the Science and Technology Facilities Council of the United Kingdom the Max-Planck-Society and the State of Niedersachsen/Germany for support of the construction and operation of the GEO600 detector The authors also gratefully acknowledge the support of the research by these agencies and by the Australian Research Council the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research of India the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of Italy the Spanish Ministerio de Educacion y Ciencia the Conselleria d Economia Hisenda i Innovacio of the Govern de les Illes Balears the Royal Society the Scottish Funding Council the Scottish Universities Physics Alliance The National Aeronautics and Space Administration the Carnegie Trust the Leverhulme Trust the David and Lucile Packard Foundation the Research Corporation and the Alfred P Sloan Foundation LIGO was constructed by the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with funding from the National Science Foundation and operates under cooperative agreement PHY-0107417 This paper has LIGO Document Number LIGO-P0900120