scholarly journals Obtaining the sensitivity of a calibrator for interferometric gravitational wave

2021 ◽  
Vol 2090 (1) ◽  
pp. 012158
Author(s):  
A. R. C. Prado ◽  
F S Bortoli ◽  
N. S. Magalhaes ◽  
R N Duarte ◽  
C Frajuca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Quantum Limit ◽  
Mass System ◽  
Active Systems ◽  
Suspension Systems ◽  
Wave Detector ◽  
Active Suspension Systems ◽  
Matlab Program ◽  
Gravitational Wave Detectors ◽  
State Of Art

Abstract Interferometric gravitational wave detectors (IGWD) are a very complex detector, the need to lock the detector in a dark fringe condition besides the vibrations that affect the mirrors, creates the necessity of using active suspension systems. These active systems make the system reach the desired sensitivity but make the calibration of such detectors much more difficult. To solve this problem a calibrator is proposed, a resonant mass gravitational wave detector could be used to detect the same signal in a narrower band and use the measured amplitude to calibrate the IGWD, as resonant mass gravitational wave detectors are easily calibrated. This work aims to obtain the expected sensitivity of such a calibrator by using lumped modelling in such mechanical detectors. The calibrator is modelled as a spring mass system and the sensitivity curve is presented calculated in by a matlab program. The curve shows that using state of art parameters for the detector the final sensitivity is close to the quantum limit and can be used to calibrate the IGWDs.

scholarly journals Modelling a mechanical antenna for a calibrator for interferometric gravitational wave detector using finite elements method

2021 ◽  
Vol 2090 (1) ◽  
pp. 012157
Author(s):  
A R C Prado ◽  
F S Bortoli ◽  
N. S. Magalhaes ◽  
R N Duarte ◽  
C Frajuca ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Finite Elements ◽  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Finite Elements Method ◽  
Gravitational Wave Detector ◽  
Active Systems ◽  
Suspension Systems ◽  
Wave Detector ◽  
Active Suspension Systems ◽  
Gravitational Wave Detectors ◽  
Made In

Abstract Interferometric gravitational wave detectors (IGWD) are a very complex detector, the need to lock the detector in a dark fringe condition besides the vibrations that affect the mirrors, creates the necessity of using active suspension systems. These active systems make the system reach the desired sensitivity but make the calibration of such detectors much more difficult. To solve this problem a calibrator is proposed, a resonant mass gravitational wave detector could be used to detect the same signal in a narrower band and use the measured amplitude to calibrate the IGWD, as resonant mass gravitational wave detectors are easily calibrated. This work aims to design the mechanical antenna of such a calibrator. The main difficulty is to design the calibrator is the frequencies required to make the detection. These massive detectors usually were made in frequencies close to 1 kHz and the frequency range to operate for better sensitivity is around 100 Hz. The antenna is modelled in finite elements method and a design of such an antenna is presented.

scholarly journals Current and future status of gravitational wave astronomy - gravitational wave facilities

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (14) ◽  
pp. 526-527
Author(s):  
Sheila Rowan
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Gravitational Radiation ◽  
Direct Detection ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Gravitational Wave Detector ◽  
Paper Briefly ◽  
Wave Detector ◽  
Gravitational Wave Detectors ◽  
The Status ◽  
Future Status

AbstractCurrently a network of interferometric gravitational wave detectors is in operation around the globe, in parallel with existing acoustic bar-type detectors. Searches are underway aimed at the first direct detection of gravitational radiation from astrophysical sources. This paper briefly summarizes the current status of operating gravitational wave facilities, plans for future detector upgrades, and the status of the planned space-based gravitational wave detector LISA.

Gravitational wave detection using laser interferometry beyond the standard quantum limit

2018 ◽  
Vol 376 (2120) ◽  
pp. 20170289 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Heurs
Keyword(s):  
Gravitational Wave ◽  
Quantum Noise ◽  
Detection Sensitivity ◽  
Quantum Limit ◽  
Gravitational Wave Detector ◽  
Emission Frequency ◽  
Standard Quantum ◽  
Standard Quantum Limit ◽  
Detector Noise ◽  
Wave Detector

Interferometric gravitational wave detectors (such as advanced LIGO) employ high-power solid-state lasers to maximize their detection sensitivity and hence their reach into the universe. These sophisticated light sources are ultra-stabilized with regard to output power, emission frequency and beam geometry; this is crucial to obtain low detector noise. However, even when all laser noise is reduced as far as technically possible, unavoidable quantum noise of the laser still remains. This is a consequence of the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle, the basis of quantum mechanics: in this case, it is fundamentally impossible to simultaneously reduce both the phase noise and the amplitude noise of a laser to arbitrarily low levels. This fact manifests in the detector noise budget as two distinct noise sources—photon shot noise and quantum radiation pressure noise—which together form a lower boundary for current-day gravitational wave detector sensitivities, the standard quantum limit of interferometry. To overcome this limit, various techniques are being proposed, among them different uses of non-classical light and alternative interferometer topologies. This article explains how quantum noise enters and manifests in an interferometric gravitational wave detector, and gives an overview of some of the schemes proposed to overcome this seemingly fundamental limitation, all aimed at the goal of higher gravitational wave event detection rates. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue ‘The promises of gravitational-wave astronomy’.

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