Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run

Authors

J. Abadie, California Institute of Technology
B. P. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
R. Abbott, California Institute of Technology
M. Abernathy, University of Glasgow
C. Adams, LIGO Livingston
R. Adhikari, California Institute of Technology
P. Ajith, California Institute of Technology
B. Allen, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
G. Allen, Stanford University
E. Amador Ceron, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
R. S. Amin, Louisiana State University
S. B. Anderson, California Institute of Technology
W. G. Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
M. A. Arain, University of Florida
M. Araya, California Institute of Technology
M. Aronsson, California Institute of Technology
Y. Aso, California Institute of Technology
S. Aston, University of Birmingham
D. E. Atkinson, LIGO Hanford
P. Aufmuth, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover
C. Aulbert, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
S. Babak, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute)
P. Baker, Montana State University
S. Ballmer, California Institute of Technology
D. Barker, LIGO Hanford
S. Barnum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
B. Barr, University of Glasgow
P. Barriga, The University of Western Australia
L. Barsotti, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
M. A. Barton, LIGO Hanford
I. Bartos, Columbia University in the City of New York
Tiffany Z. Summerscales, Andrews UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-1-2010

Keywords

Calibration, Control systems, Gravitational waves, Interferometer

Abstract

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a network of three detectors built to detect local perturbations in the spacetime metric from astrophysical sources. These detectors, two in Hanford, WA and one in Livingston, LA, are power-recycled Fabry-Perot Michelson interferometers. In their fifth science run (S5), between November 2005 and October 2007, these detectors accumulated one year of triple coincident data while operating at their designed sensitivity. In this paper, we describe the calibration of the instruments in the S5 data set, including measurement techniques and uncertainty estimation. © 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Journal Title

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volume

624

Issue

1

First Page

223

Last Page

240

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2010.07.089

First Department

Physics

Recommended Citation

Abadie, J.; Abbott, B. P.; Abbott, R.; Abernathy, M.; Adams, C.; Adhikari, R.; Ajith, P.; Allen, B.; Allen, G.; Amador Ceron, E.; Amin, R. S.; Anderson, S. B.; Anderson, W. G.; Arain, M. A.; Araya, M.; Aronsson, M.; Aso, Y.; Aston, S.; Atkinson, D. E.; Aufmuth, P.; Aulbert, C.; Babak, S.; Baker, P.; Ballmer, S.; Barker, D.; Barnum, S.; Barr, B.; Barriga, P.; Barsotti, L.; Barton, M. A.; Bartos, I.; and Summerscales, Tiffany Z., "Calibration of the LIGO Gravitational Wave Detectors in the Fifth Science Run" (2010). Faculty Publications. 1969.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/pubs/1969