M Hewitson (for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration) 2007 Class. Quantum Grav. 24 S445 doi:10.1088/0264-9381/24/19/S08
M Hewitson (for the LIGO Scientific Collaboration)
Show affiliationsGEO 600 is one of a few detectors in the world searching for gravitational wave signals from various astronomical sources. The commissioning and characterization of gravitational wave detectors is a highly complex activity that requires the use of many sophisticated analysis procedures. In order to extract all possible astronomical information from the data recorded at GEO 600, the detector and the data must be understood and characterized as well as possible so that the data can make the largest possible contribution in any subsequent analyses. This paper provides a review of some of the aspects of detector and data characterization that takes place at GEO 600.
04.80.Nn Gravitational wave detectors and experiments
07.05.Kf Data analysis: algorithms and implementation; data management
78A60 Lasers, masers, optical bistability, nonlinear optics (See also 81V80)
Issue 19 (7 October 2007)
Received 23 April 2007, in final form 3 June 2007
Published 19 September 2007
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