TY - JOUR
T1 - Noise from scattered light in Virgo's second science run data
AU - Accadia, T.
AU - Bulten, H.J.
AU - Rabeling, D.S.
AU - van den Brand, J.F.J.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Virgo is one of the large, ground-based interferometers aimed at detecting gravitational waves. One of the technical problems limiting its sensitivity is caused by light in the output beams which is backscattered by seismically excited surfaces and couples back into the main beam of the interferometer. The resulting noise was thoroughly studied, measured and mitigated before Virgo's second science run (VSR2). The residual noise during VSR2, which increases in periods with a large microseism activity, is accurately predicted by the theoretical model. The scattered light has been associated with transient events in the gravitational-wave signal of the interferometer. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.
AB - Virgo is one of the large, ground-based interferometers aimed at detecting gravitational waves. One of the technical problems limiting its sensitivity is caused by light in the output beams which is backscattered by seismically excited surfaces and couples back into the main beam of the interferometer. The resulting noise was thoroughly studied, measured and mitigated before Virgo's second science run (VSR2). The residual noise during VSR2, which increases in periods with a large microseism activity, is accurately predicted by the theoretical model. The scattered light has been associated with transient events in the gravitational-wave signal of the interferometer. © 2010 IOP Publishing Ltd.
U2 - 10.1088/0264-9381/27/19/194011
DO - 10.1088/0264-9381/27/19/194011
M3 - Article
SN - 0264-9381
VL - 27
SP - 194011
JO - Classical and Quantum Gravity
JF - Classical and Quantum Gravity
IS - 19
ER -