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Status of the GEO600 detector

H Lück1, M Hewitson1, P Ajith1, B Allen3, P Aufmuth1, C Aulbert3, S Babak3, R Balasubramanian4, B W Barr2, S Berukoff3, A Bunkowski1, G Cagnoli2, C A Cantley2, M M Casey2, S Chelkowski1, Y Chen3, D Churches4, T Cokelaer4, C N Colacino6, D R M Crooks2, C Cutler3, K Danzmann1, R J Dupuis2, E Elliffe2, C Fallnich5, A Franzen1, A Freise6, I Gholami3, S Goßler1, A Grant2, H Grote1, S Grunewald3, J Harms1, B Hage1, G Heinzel1, I S Heng2, A Hepstonstall2, M Heurs1, S Hild1, J Hough2, Y Itoh3, G Jones4, R Jones2, S H Huttner2, K Kötter1, B Krishnan3, P Kwee1, M Luna7, B Machenschalk3, M Malec1, R A Mercer6, T Meier1, C Messenger6, S Mohanty3, K Mossavi1, S Mukherjee3, P Murray2, G P Newton2, M A Papa3, M Perreur-Lloyd2, M Pitkin2, M V Plissi2, R Prix3, V Quetschke1, V Re6, T Regimbau4, H Rehbein1, S Reid2, L Ribichini1, D I Robertson2, N A Robertson2,8, C Robinson4, J D Romano4, S Rowan2, A Rüdiger1, B S Sathyaprakash4, R Schilling1, R Schnabel1, B F Schutz3,4, F Seifert1, A M Sintes7, J R Smith1, P H Sneddon2, K A Strain2, I Taylor4, R Taylor2, A Thüring1, C Ungarelli6, H Vahlbruch1, A Vecchio6, J Veitch2, H Ward2, U Weiland1, H Welling5, L Wen3, P Williams3, B Willke1, W Winkler1, G Woan2 and R Zhu3

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Of all the large interferometric gravitational-wave detectors, the German/British project GEO600 is the only one which uses dual recycling. During the four weeks of the international S4 data-taking run it reached an instrumental duty cycle of 97% with a peak sensitivity of 7 × 10−22 Hz−1/2 at 1 kHz. This paper describes the status during S4 and improvements thereafter.


PACS

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

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

95.55.Br Astrometric and interferometric instruments

MSC

83C35 Gravitational waves

Subjects

Instrumentation and measurement

Gravitation and cosmology

Astrophysics and astroparticles

Dates

Issue 8 (21 April 2006)

Received 7 September 2005, in final form 29 November 2005

Published 24 March 2006



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