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Status of Virgo detector

F Acernese1, P Amico2, M Alshourbagy3, F Antonucci4, S Aoudia5, P Astone4, S Avino1, D Babusci6, G Ballardin7, F Barone1, L Barsotti3, M Barsuglia8, F Beauville9, S Bigotta3, S Birindelli3, M A Bizouard8, C Boccara10, F Bondu5, L Bosi2, C Bradaschia3, S Braccini3, A Brillet5, V Brisson8, D Buskulic9, E Calloni1, E Campagna11, F Carbognani7, F Cavalier8, R Cavalieri7, G Cella3, E Cesarini11, E Chassande-Mottin5, N Christensen7, C Corda3, A Corsi4, F Cottone2, A-C Clapson8, F Cleva5, J-P Coulon5, E Cuoco7, A Dari2, V Dattilo7, M Davier8, M del Prete3, R De Rosa1, L Di Fiore1, A Di Virgilio3, B Dujardin5, A Eleuteri1, I Ferrante3, F Fidecaro3, I Fiori3, R Flaminio7,9, J-D Fournier5, S Frasca4, F Frasconi3, L Gammaitoni2, F Garufi1, E Genin7, A Gennai3, A Giazotto3, G Giordano6, L Giordano1, R Gouaty9, D Grosjean9, G Guidi11, S Hebri7, H Heitmann5, P Hello8, S Karkar9, S Kreckelbergh8, P La Penna7, M Laval5, N Leroy8, N Letendre9, B Lopez7, M Lorenzini11, V Loriette10, G Losurdo11, J-M Mackowski12, E Majorana4, C N Man5, M Mantovani3, F Marchesoni2, F Marion9, J Marque7, F Martelli11, A Masserot9, M Mazzoni11, L Milano1, F Menzinger7, C Moins7, J Moreau10, N Morgado12, B Mours9, F Nocera7, C Palomba4, F Paoletti3,7, S Pardi1, A Pasqualetti7, R Passaquieti3, D Passuello3, F Piergiovanni11, L Pinard12, R Poggiani3, M Punturo2, P Puppo4, K Qipiani1, P Rapagnani4, V Reita10, A Remillieux12, F Ricci4, I Ricciardi1, P Ruggi7, G Russo1, S Solimeno1, A Spallicci5, M Tarallo3, M Tonelli3, A Toncelli3, E Tournefier9, F Travasso2, C Tremola3, G Vajente3, D Verkindt9, F Vetrano11, A Viceré11, J-Y Vinet5, H Vocca2 and M Yvert9

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The commissioning of the Virgo gravitational wave detector has restarted after several major hardware upgrades carried out during winter 2005. Now Virgo is fully operative and its sensitivity greatly improved and continually improving. A program of short scientific data taking has already started and Virgo is moving towards a period of continuous data taking, which should start at the end of May 2007. The actual status of the Virgo detector is reported, describing the actual detector sensitivity as well as the limiting noises and the mid-term plans.


PACS

04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments

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 19 (7 October 2007)

Received 31 March 2007, in final form 21 May 2007

Published 19 September 2007



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