Quick search Find article
Quick search
Find article

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

Show affiliations


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



  1. Calibration of the ALLEGRO resonant detector

    Martin P McHugh et al 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 S965

  2. Monte Carlo analysis of single fiber reflectance spectroscopy: photon path length and sampling depth

    S C Kanick et al 2009 Phys. Med. Biol. 54 6991

  3. The elastic scattering of positrons from beryllium and magnesium in the low-energy region

    M W J Bromley et al 1998 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 31 4449

  4. Supernova neutrino–nucleus astrophysics

    A B Balantekin and G M Fuller 2003 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys. 29 2513

  5. Non-analyticity of self-consistent field approaches: failure of predicting symmetry

    L S Cederbaum et al 1990 J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 23 L747

  6. The speed of gravity in general relativity and theoretical interpretation of the Jovian deflection experiment

    Sergei M Kopeikin 2004 Class. Quantum Grav. 21 3251

  7. Green functions and propagation of waves in strongly inhomogeneous media

    Z Haba 2004 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37 9295

  8. Modeling the frequency dependence of the electrical properties of the live human skull

    Chi Tang et al 2009 Physiol. Meas. 30 1293

  9. Improved lower bounds on the connective constants for two-dimensional self-avoiding walks

    Iwan Jensen 2004 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 37 11521

  10. Reply to comment on 'Integrable Kondo impurity in one-dimensional q-deformed tJ models'

    Xiang-Yu Ge et al 2002 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35 6197

Users also read

What's this?
This innovative new feature generates a list of articles 'also read' by other users based on them reading the original article. Article abstracts citations and references are all considered and weighted accordingly. We hope that this will help you find relevant papers for your research.

  1. The AURIGA–LIGO joint burst search
  2. LISA source confusion: identification and characterization of signals
  3. A time-domain MCMC search and upper limit technique for gravitational waves of uncertain frequency from a targeted neutron star
More

View by subject




Export








Please login to access our web services, or create an account if you don't yet have one.

You must have cookies enabled in your web browser to be able to login.

Username
Password

Forgotten your password? Get a new one here.