Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run

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作者
Aasi, J. [1 ]
Abadie, J. [1 ]
Abbott, B. P. [1 ]
Abbott, R. [1 ]
Abbott, T. [2 ]
Abernathy, M. R. [1 ]
Accadia, T. [3 ]
Acernese, F. [4 ,5 ]
Adams, C. [6 ]
Adams, T. [7 ]
Adhikari, R. X. [1 ]
Affeldt, C. [8 ]
Agathos, M. [9 ]
Aggarwal, N. [10 ]
Aguiar, O. D. [11 ]
Ajith, P. [1 ]
Allen, B. [8 ,12 ,13 ]
Allocca, A. [14 ,15 ,75 ]
Ceron, E. Amador [12 ]
Amariutei, D. [16 ]
Anderson, R. A. [1 ]
Anderson, S. B. [1 ]
Anderson, W. G. [12 ]
Arai, K. [1 ]
Araya, M. C. [1 ]
Arceneaux, C. [17 ]
Areeda, J. [18 ]
Ast, S. [13 ]
Aston, S. M. [6 ,19 ]
Astone, P. [19 ]
Aufmuth, P. [13 ]
Aulbert, C. [8 ]
Austin, L. [1 ]
Aylott, B. E. [20 ]
Babak, S. [21 ]
Baker, P. T. [22 ]
Ballardin, G. [23 ,24 ]
Ballmer, S. W.
Barayoga, J. C. [1 ]
Barker, D. [25 ]
Barnum, S. H. [10 ]
Barone, F. [4 ,5 ]
Barr, B. [26 ]
Barsotti, L.
Barsuglia, M. [10 ,27 ]
Barton, M. A. [25 ]
Bartos, I. [28 ]
Bassiri, R. [26 ,29 ]
Basti, A. [14 ,30 ]
Batch, J. [25 ]
机构
[1] CALTECH, LIGO, Pasadena, CA 91125 USA
[2] Louisiana State Univ, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 USA
[3] Univ Savoie, CNRS IN2P3, Lab Annecy le Vieux Phys Particules LAPP, F-74941 Annecy Le Vieux, France
[4] Complesso Univ Monte S Angelo, Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Napoli, I-80126 Naples, Italy
[5] Univ Salerno, I-84084 Salerno, Italy
[6] Livingston Observ, LIGO, Livingston, LA 70754 USA
[7] Cardiff Univ, Cardiff CF24 3AA, S Glam, Wales
[8] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[9] Nikhef, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, Netherlands
[10] MIT, LIGO, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[11] Inst Nacl Pesquisas Espaciais, BR-12227010 Sao Jose Dos Campos, SP, Brazil
[12] Univ Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53201 USA
[13] Leibniz Univ Hannover, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
[14] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[15] Univ Siena, I-53100 Siena, Italy
[16] Univ Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611 USA
[17] Univ Mississippi, University, MS 38677 USA
[18] Calif State Univ Fullerton, Fullerton, CA 92831 USA
[19] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Roma, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[20] Univ Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT, W Midlands, England
[21] Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, D-14476 Golm, Germany
[22] Montana State Univ, Bozeman, MT 59717 USA
[23] European Gravitat Observ, I-56021 Pisa, Italy
[24] Syracuse Univ, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA
[25] Hanford Observ, LIGO, Richland, WA 99352 USA
[26] Univ Glasgow, SUPA, Glasgow G12 8QQ, Lanark, Scotland
[27] Univ Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, Observ Paris, APC,AstroParticule & Cosmol,CNRS IN2P3,CEA Irfu, F-75205 Paris 13, France
[28] Columbia Univ, New York, NY 10027 USA
[29] Stanford Univ, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[30] Univ Pisa, I-56127 Pisa, Italy
[31] CAMK PAN, PL-00716 Warsaw, Poland
[32] Univ Texas Brownsville, Brownsville, TX 78520 USA
[33] San Jose State Univ, San Jose, CA 95192 USA
[34] Moscow MV Lomonosov State Univ, Moscow 119992, Russia
[35] Univ Paris 11, CNRS, IN2P3, LAL, F-91898 Orsay, France
[36] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
[37] Univ Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
[38] Univ Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, ARTEMIS, F-06304 Nice, France
[39] Observ Cote Azur, F-06304 Nice, France
[40] Univ Rennes 1, CNRS, Inst Phys Rennes, F-35042 Rennes, France
[41] Univ Lyon, CNRS, IN2P3, Lab Mat Avances, F-69622 Lyon, France
[42] Washington State Univ, Pullman, WA 99164 USA
[43] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Perugia, I-06123 Perugia, Italy
[44] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl, Sez Firenze, I-50019 Florence, Italy
[45] Univ Urbino Carlo Bo, I-61029 Urbino, Italy
[46] Univ Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403 USA
[47] Univ Paris 06, CNRS, ENS, Lab Kastler Brossel, F-75005 Paris, France
[48] Warsaw Univ, Astron Observ, PL-00478 Warsaw, Poland
[49] Vrije Univ Amsterdam, NL-1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands
[50] Univ Maryland, College Pk, MD 20742 USA
基金
美国国家航空航天局; 美国国家科学基金会; 英国科学技术设施理事会; 澳大利亚研究理事会; 新加坡国家研究基金会;
关键词
LIGO; gravitational waves; detector characterization; GRAVITATIONAL-WAVE DETECTOR; THERMAL NOISE; READOUT; LASER;
D O I
10.1088/0264-9381/32/11/115012
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
In 2009-2010, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) operated together with international partners Virgo and GEO600 as a network to search for gravitational waves (GWs) of astrophysical origin. The sensitivity of these detectors was limited by a combination of noise sources inherent to the instrumental design and its environment, often localized in time or frequency, that couple into the GW readout. Here we review the performance of the LIGO instruments during this epoch, the work done to characterize the detectors and their data, and the effect that transient and continuous noise artefacts have on the sensitivity of LIGO to a variety of astrophysical sources.
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