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Virgo status and commissioning results

F Acernese1, P Amico2, S Aoudia3, N Arnaud4, S Avino1, D Babusci5, G Ballardin6, R Barillé6, F Barone1, L Barsotti7, M Barsuglia4, F Beauville8, M A Bizouard4, C Boccara9, F Bondu3, L Bosi2, C Bradaschia7, S Braccini7, A Brillet3, V Brisson4, L Brocco10, D Buskulic8, E Calloni1, E Campagna11, F Cavalier4, R Cavalieri6, G Cella7, E Chassande-Mottin3, F Cleva3, J-P Coulon3, E Cuoco6, V Dattilo6, M Davier4, R De Rosa1, L Di Fiore1, A Di Virgilio7, B Dujardin3, A Eleuteri1, D Enard6, I Ferrante7, F Fidecaro7, I Fiori7, R Flaminio6,8, J-D Fournier3, S Frasca10, F Frasconi6,7, A Freise6, L Gammaitoni2, A Gennai7, A Giazotto7, G Giordano5, L Giordano1, R Gouaty8, D Grosjean8, G Guidi11, S Hebri3, H Heitmann3, P Hello4, P Heusse4, L Holloway6, S Kreckelbergh4, P La Penna6, V Loriette9, M Loupias6, G Losurdo11, J-M Mackowski12, E Majorana10, C N Man3, F Marchesoni2, F Marion8, J Marque6, F Martelli11, A Masserot8, M Mazzoni11, L Milano1, C Moins6, J Moreau9, N Morgado12, B Mours1, J Pacheco3, A Pai10, C Palomba10, F Paoletti6,7, S Pardi1, A Pasqualetti6, R Passaquieti7, D Passuello7, S Peirani3, B Perniola11, F Piergiovanni11, L Pinard12, R Poggiani7, M Punturo2, P Puppo10, K Qipiani1, P Rapagnani10, V Reita9, A Remillieux12, F Ricci10, I Ricciardi1, P Ruggi6, G Russo1, S Solimeno1, A Spallicci3, R Stanga11, R Taddei6, D Tombolato8, E Tournefier8, F Travasso2, D Verkindt8, F Vetrano11, A Viceré11, J-Y Vinet3, H Vocca2, M Yvert8 and Z Zhang6

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Virgo is a French–Italian collaboration for the construction and operation of a 3 km long interferometric gravitational wave antenna. The construction of the detector is already completed and the commissioning is quite advanced, while the data taking is expected to start in 2005. In this paper, we report on the present status of Virgo and on the results of commissioning activity. In particular, we analyse the first four engineering runs (C1–C4) and discuss the sensitivity obtained in C4.


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

07.60.Ly Interferometers

MSC

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Dates

Issue 10 (21 May 2005)

Received 16 November 2004, in final form 1 February 2005

Published 21 April 2005



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