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Book Synopsis Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors by : D. G. Blair
Download or read book Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors written by D. G. Blair and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the technology and reviews the experimental issues; a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in physics and astrophysics.
Book Synopsis Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves by : Massimo Bassan
Download or read book Advanced Interferometers and the Search for Gravitational Waves written by Massimo Bassan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for gravitational radiation with optical interferometers is gaining momentum worldwide. Beside the VIRGO and GEO gravitational wave observatories in Europe and the two LIGOs in the United States, which have operated successfully during the past decade, further observatories are being completed (KAGRA in Japan) or planned (ILIGO in India). The sensitivity of the current observatories, although spectacular, has not allowed direct discovery of gravitational waves. The advanced detectors (Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo) at present in the development phase will improve sensitivity by a factor of 10, probing the universe up to 200 Mpc for signal from inspiraling binary compact stars. This book covers all experimental aspects of the search for gravitational radiation with optical interferometers. Every facet of the technological development underlying the evolution of advanced interferometers is thoroughly described, from configuration to optics and coatings and from thermal compensation to suspensions and controls. All key ingredients of an advanced detector are covered, including the solutions implemented in first-generation detectors, their limitations, and how to overcome them. Each issue is addressed with special reference to the solution adopted for Advanced VIRGO but constant attention is also paid to other strategies, in particular those chosen for Advanced LIGO.
Book Synopsis Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors (In 2 Volumes) by : Grote Hartmut
Download or read book Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors (In 2 Volumes) written by Grote Hartmut and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detection of gravitational waves in 2015 has been hailed a scientific breakthrough and one of the most significant scientific discoveries of the 21st century. Gravitational-wave physics and astronomy are emerging as a new frontier in understanding the universe.Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-Wave Detectors brings together many of the world's top experts to deliver an authoritative and in-depth treatment on current and future detectors. Volume I is devoted to the essentials of gravitational-wave detectors, presenting the physical principles behind large-scale precision interferometry, the physics of the underlying noise sources that limit interferometer sensitivity, and an explanation of the key enabling technologies that are used in the detectors. Volume II provides an in-depth look at the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo interferometers, as well as examining future interferometric detector concepts. This two-volume set will provide students and researchers the comprehensive background needed to understand gravitational-wave detectors.
Book Synopsis Fundamentals Of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (Second Edition) by : Peter R Saulson
Download or read book Fundamentals Of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors (Second Edition) written by Peter R Saulson and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The content of the Saulson’s book remains valid and offers a versatile introduction to gravitational wave astronomy. The book is appropriate for undergraduate students and can be read by graduate students and researchers who want to be involved in either the theoretical or the experimental traits of the study of gravitational waves.'Contemporary PhysicsLIGO's recent discovery of gravitational waves was headline news around the world. Many people will want to understand more about what a gravitational wave is, how LIGO works, and how LIGO functions as a detector of gravitational waves.This book aims to communicate the basic logic of interferometric gravitational wave detectors to students who are new to the field. It assumes that the reader has a basic knowledge of physics, but no special familiarity with gravitational waves, with general relativity, or with the special techniques of experimental physics. All of the necessary ideas are developed in the book.The first edition was published in 1994. Since the book is aimed at explaining the physical ideas behind the design of LIGO, it stands the test of time. For the second edition, an Epilogue has been added; it brings the treatment of technical details up to date, and provides references that would allow a student to become proficient with today's designs.
Book Synopsis Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Essentials of gravitational wave detectors by : David H. Reitze
Download or read book Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Essentials of gravitational wave detectors written by David H. Reitze and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gravitational Wave Data Analysis by : B.F. Schutz
Download or read book Gravitational Wave Data Analysis written by B.F. Schutz and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-01-31 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Dyffryn House, St. Nicholas, Cardiff, Wales, July 6-9, 1987
Book Synopsis Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors by : David H. Reitze
Download or read book Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors written by David H. Reitze and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy by : Cosimo Bambi
Download or read book Handbook of Gravitational Wave Astronomy written by Cosimo Bambi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 1873 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an updated comprehensive description of gravitational wave astronomy. In the first part, it reviews gravitational wave experiments, from ground and space based laser interferometers to pulsar timing arrays and indirect detection from the cosmic microwave background. In the second part, it discusses a number of astrophysical and cosmological gravitational wave sources, including black holes, neutron stars, possible more exotic objects, and sources in the early Universe. The third part of the book reviews the methods to calculate gravitational waveforms. The fourth and last part of the book covers techniques employed in gravitational wave astronomy data analysis. This book represents both a valuable resource for graduate students and an important reference for researchers in gravitational wave astronomy.
Book Synopsis Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Advanced LIGO, advanced Virgo and beyond by : David H. Reitze
Download or read book Advanced Interferometric Gravitational-wave Detectors: Advanced LIGO, advanced Virgo and beyond written by David H. Reitze and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by : Janna Levin
Download or read book Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space written by Janna Levin and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer. From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtrack of our universe. Black holes are dark. That is their essence. When black holes collide, they will do so unilluminated. Yet the black hole collision is an event more powerful than any since the origin of the universe. The profusion of energy will emanate as waves in the shape of spacetime: gravitational waves. No telescope will ever record the event; instead, the only evidence would be the sound of spacetime ringing. In 1916, Einstein predicted the existence of gravitational waves, his top priority after he proposed his theory of curved spacetime. One century later, we are recording the first sounds from space, the soundtrack to accompany astronomy’s silent movie. In Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space, Janna Levin recounts the fascinating story of the obsessions, the aspirations, and the trials of the scientists who embarked on an arduous, fifty-year endeavor to capture these elusive waves. An experimental ambition that began as an amusing thought experiment, a mad idea, became the object of fixation for the original architects—Rai Weiss, Kip Thorne, and Ron Drever. Striving to make the ambition a reality, the original three gradually accumulated an international team of hundreds. As this book was written, two massive instruments of remarkably delicate sensitivity were brought to advanced capability. As the book draws to a close, five decades after the experimental ambition began, the team races to intercept a wisp of a sound with two colossal machines, hoping to succeed in time for the centenary of Einstein’s most radical idea. Janna Levin’s absorbing account of the surprises, disappointments, achievements, and risks in this unfolding story offers a portrait of modern science that is unlike anything we’ve seen before.
Book Synopsis Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors by : David G. Blair
Download or read book Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors written by David G. Blair and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces the technology and reviews the experimental issues; a valuable reference for graduate students and researchers in physics and astrophysics.
Book Synopsis Overview Of Gravitational Waves, An: Theory, Sources And Detection by : Gerard Auger
Download or read book Overview Of Gravitational Waves, An: Theory, Sources And Detection written by Gerard Auger and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2017-02-15 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes detection techniques used to search for and analyze gravitational waves (GW). It covers the whole domain of GW science, starting from the theory and ending with the experimental techniques (both present and future) used to detect them.The theoretical sections of the book address the theory of general relativity and of GW, followed by the theory of GW detection. The various sources of GW are described as well as the methods used to analyse them and to extract their physical parameters. It includes an analysis of the consequences of GW observations in terms of astrophysics as well as a description of the different detectors that exist and that are planned for the future.With the recent announcement of GW detection and the first results from LISA Pathfinder, this book will allow non-specialists to understand the present status of the field and the future of gravitational wave science.
Book Synopsis Control of the Gravitational Wave Interferometric Detector Advanced Virgo by : Julia Casanueva Diaz
Download or read book Control of the Gravitational Wave Interferometric Detector Advanced Virgo written by Julia Casanueva Diaz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the development and implementation of the longitudinal, angular and frequency controls of the Advanced Virgo detector, both from the simulation and experimental point of view, which contributed to Virgo reaching a sensitivity that enabled it to join the LIGO-Virgo O2 run in August 2017. This data taking was very successful, with the first direct detection of a binary black hole merger (GW170814) using the full network of three interferometers, and the first detection and localization of a binary neutron star merger (GW170817). The second generation of gravitational wave detector, Advanced Virgo, is capable of detecting differential displacements of the order of 10–21m. This means that it is highly sensitive to any disturbance, including the seismic movement of the Earth. For this reason an active control is necessary to keep the detector in place with sufficient accuracy.
Book Synopsis Injection-locked high power oscillator for advanced gravitational wave observatories by : Lutz Winkelmann
Download or read book Injection-locked high power oscillator for advanced gravitational wave observatories written by Lutz Winkelmann and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One approach to detect gravitational waves, which have been postulated by Albert Einstein in his General Theory of Relativity, is based on interferometric measurements of length variations with a large-scale Michelson interferometer. The detection range of these ground-based observatories is currently limited to approx. 15 Megaparsec (Mpc) because of a reduced sensitivity at detection frequencies of 10 Hz – 10 kHz by shot noise. These limitations can be overcome by an output power increase of the detector’s light source, which will enhance the sensitivity by an order of magnitude. Thus, the possibility of detecting a gravitational wave will be raised by a factor of 1000 and the detection range will be increased to 150 Mpc, accordingly. In this work a laser systems is presented, which fulfills the free-running laser requirements on stability and beam quality required by the next generation of gravitational wave detectors for the first time. The developed laser system is based on a two-stage concept, supplemented with an active amplitude and frequency stabilization, which is not part of this work. A 35 W Nd:YVO4 amplifier system with an emission wavelength of 1064 nm represents the frequency reference of the laser system and is used as the seed for an injection-locked high power oscillator. This amplifier, which is based on a Master Oscillator Power Amplifier scheme, is already used in today’s gravitational wave detectors and has been proven to be reliable in long-term operation. The linearly polarized output power of more than 200 W is generated inside the oscillator stage, which consists of four Nd:YAG crystals arranged in an asymmetric ring resonator configuration. To compensate for losses due to thermal birefringence inside the longitudinally pumped laser crystals, an imaging depolarization compensation is used. To optimize the output power of the high power oscillator a numerical model was used to calculate the resonator properties. The results derived from this model combined with experimental data are the basis for the dimensions and mechanical design of the final oscillator setup. For the injection-locking of the two laser sources, the resonator length of the high power oscillator has to be adapted and actively stabilized to be resonant with the incident seed frequency. Changes in temperature of the mechanical components result in length variations which will negatively affect the coupling of both laser systems. To compensate for this thermally induced elongation, various mechanical models have been qualitatively studied and an adequate solution consisting of a combination of adapted materials and active cooling was chosen. Furthermore, an additional slow actuator was included into the laser control, which compensates for room temperature and pressure variation induced distortions. With the developed laser system a constant single-frequency output power of 220 W with more than 165 W in the fundamental mode was obtained. Furthermore, it was possible to fulfill the LIGO VIRGO Scientific Collaboration (LVC) free-running laser requirements for their next generation of gravitational wave detectors (advanced LIGO) in cooperation with the Max-Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Hannover. Thus, the installation of the presented laser system in the world largest terrestrial gravitational wave observatories started in spring 2011.
Book Synopsis Gravitational-wave Detection by : Mike Cruise
Download or read book Gravitational-wave Detection written by Mike Cruise and published by SPIE-International Society for Optical Engineering. This book was released on 2003 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Gravitational Waves by : Hartmut Grote
Download or read book Gravitational Waves written by Hartmut Grote and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historic detection of gravitational waves on September 14, 2015, prompted by the highly energetic fusion of two black holes, has made events in the universe "audible" for the first time. This expansion of the scientific sensorium has opened a new chapter in astronomy and already led to, among others, fascinating new insights about the abundance of black holes, the collision of neutron stars, and the origin of heavy chemical elements. The history of this event, which is epochal for physics, is reconstructed in this book, along with a walk-through of the main principles of how the detectors operate and a discussion of how the search for gravitational waves is conducted. The book concludes with an update of the latest detections and developments to date and a brief look into the future of this exciting research field. This book is accessible to non-specialist readers from a general audience and is also an excellent introduction to the topic for undergraduates in physics. Features: Provides an introduction to the historic discovery of gravitational waves Explains the inner workings of the detectors and the search to find the waves hidden in the data Authored by a renowned specialist involved in the ground-breaking discovery Hartmut Grote is a Professor of physics at Cardiff University, UK. His main expertise is in experimental gravitational-wave physics, and he has worked on building and improving gravitational wave detectors for over 20 years. From 2009 to 2017, he was the scientific leader of the British-German gravitational-wave detector: GEO600.
Book Synopsis Quantum Enhancement of a 4 km Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Detector by : Sheon S. Y. Chua
Download or read book Quantum Enhancement of a 4 km Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Detector written by Sheon S. Y. Chua and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-09 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work in this thesis was a part of the experiment of squeezed light injection into the LIGO interferometer. The work first discusses the detailed design of the squeezed light source which would be used for the experiment. The specific design is the doubly-resonant, traveling-wave bow-tie cavity squeezed light source with a new modified coherent sideband locking technique. The thesis describes the properties affecting the squeezing magnitudes and offers solutions which improve the gain. The first part also includes the detailed modeling of the back-scattering noise of a traveling Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO). In the second part, the thesis discusses the LIGO Squeezed Light Injection Experiment, undertaken to test squeezed light injection into a 4km interferometric gravitational wave detector. The results show the first ever measurement of squeezing enhancement in a full-scale suspended gravitational wave interferometer with Fabry-Perot arms. Further, it showed that the presence of a squeezed-light source added no additional noise in the low frequency band. The result was the best sensitivity achieved by any gravitational wave detector. The thesis is very well organized with the adequate theoretical background including basics of Quantum Optics, Quantum noise pertaining to gravitational wave detectors in various configurations, along with extensive referencing necessary for the experimental set-up. For any non-experimental scientist, this introduction is a very useful and enjoyable reading. The author is the winner of the 2013 GWIC Theses Prize.
