Calibration of the LIGO gravitational wave detectors in the fifth science run
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2010
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Hosken, D.
Munch, J.
Ottaway, D.
Veitch, P.
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Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors, and Associated Equipment, 2010; 624(1):223-240
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J. Abadie... D. J. Hosken... J. Munch... D. J. Ottaway... P. J. Veitch...et al.
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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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Copyright © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.