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Calibration of the ALLEGRO resonant detector

Martin P McHugh1, Warren W Johnson2, William O Hamilton2, Jonathan Hanson2, Ik Siong Heng3, Daniel McNeese1, Phillip Miller2, Damon Nettles2, Jordan Weaver2 and Ping Zhang2

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We describe a method for calibrating the ALLEGRO resonant detector. The resulting response function can be used to transform the observed data backwards to gravitational strain data. These data are the input to a cross-correlation analysis to search for stochastic gravitational waves.


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

95.85.Sz Gravitational radiation, magnetic fields, and other observations

95.55.Ym Gravitational radiation detectors; mass spectrometers; and other instrumentation and techniques

MSC

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 18 (21 September 2005)

Received 8 April 2005, in final form 9 June 2005

Published 23 August 2005



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