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Gravitational wave detectors on the ground and in space

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Danzmann,  Karsten
Laser Interferometry & Gravitational Wave Astronomy, AEI-Hannover, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Max Planck Society;

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Danzmann, K. (2001). Gravitational wave detectors on the ground and in space. In E. Arimondo (Ed.), Atomic physics 17: XVII international conference; ICAP 2000 (pp. 293-306). Melville, NY: American Inst. of Physics.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-55C0-7
Abstract
Small prototypes of gravitational wave detectors have been under development for over 30 years. But it is only now that we have the necessary technology available to build large instruments with good sensitivity. After several years of construction, the first ground-based interferometers will go into operation in 2001 and a space-based detector is expected to be launched in 2010. These instruments will complement each other because the gravitational wave spectrum extends over many decades in frequency. Ground-based detectors can only observe the audio-frequency regime above 1 Hz, while sources in the low-frequency regime are only accessible from space because of the unshieldable background of local gravitational noise on the ground.