Published April 7, 2002
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Journal article
Allegro: noise performance and the ongoing search for gravitational waves
- 1. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 (United States)
- 2. Department of Physics, Loyola University, New Orleans, LA 70118 (United States)
Description
The noise performance of Allegro since 1993 is summarized. We show that the noise level of Allegro is, in general, stationary. Non-Gaussian impulse excitations persist despite efforts to isolate the detector from environmental disturbances. Some excitations are caused by seismic activity and flux jumps in the SQUID. Algorithms to identify and automatically veto these events are presented. Also, the contribution of Allegro to collaborations with other resonant-mass detectors via the International Gravitational Event Collaboration and with LIGO is reviewed
Availability note (English)
Available online at http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/19/1889/q20789.pdf or at the Web site for the journal Classical and Quantum Gravity (ISSN 1361-6382) http://www.iop.org/Additional details
Identifiers
- URL
- http://stacks.iop.org/0264-9381/19/1889/q20789.pdf; http://www.iop.org/;
- PII
- S0264-9381(02)29438-1;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Journal Volume
- 19
- Journal Issue
- 7
- Journal Page Range
- p. 1889-1895
- ISSN
- 0264-9381
- CODEN
- CQGRDG
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 34031504
- Subject category
- S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S71: CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS, GENERAL PHYSICS;
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGORITHMS; GRAVITATIONAL WAVE DETECTORS; NOISE; SEISMIC EVENTS; SQUID DEVICES
- Descriptors DEC
- ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT; FLUXMETERS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MICROWAVE EQUIPMENT; RADIATION DETECTORS; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES