Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run

Stuart Aston; Eleanor Chalkley; Simon Chelkowski; Adrian Cruise; Andreas Freise; Jonathan Hallam; David Hoyland; Keiko Kokeyama; John Nelson; Anthony Page; Alberto Vecchio

doi:10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453

Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run

Stuart Aston, Eleanor Chalkley, Simon Chelkowski, Adrian Cruise, Andreas Freise, Jonathan Hallam, David Hoyland, Keiko Kokeyama, John Nelson, Anthony Page, Alberto Vecchio

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The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a network of three detectors built to detect local perturbations in the space-time 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	223-240
Number of pages	18
Journal	Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A. Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors
Volume	624
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453
Publication status	Published - 1 Dec 2010

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Birmingham Astrophysics - Rolling Grant 2007-2012
Ponman, T., Cruise, M., Freise, A., Raychaudhury, S., Smith, G., Speake, C., Stevens, I. & Vecchio, A.
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
1/04/07 → 31/03/12
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Aston, S., Chalkley, E., Chelkowski, S., Cruise, A., Freise, A., Hallam, J., Hoyland, D., Kokeyama, K., Nelson, J., Page, A., & Vecchio, A. (2010). Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run. Nuclear Instruments & Methods in Physics Research. Section A. Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, 624(1), 223-240. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/715/2/1453

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Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run

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