Advanced gravitational wave detectors /
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012. |
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| Description: | xxi, 321 p. : ill. ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8737173 |
Table of Contents:
- Part I. An Introduction to Gravitational Wave Astronomy and Detectors
- 1. Gravitational waves
- 2. Sources of gravitational waves
- 3. Gravitational wave detectors
- 4. Gravitational wave data analysis
- 5. Network analysis
- Part II. Current Laser Interferometer Detectors: Three Case Studies
- 6. The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
- 7. The VIRGO detector
- 8. GEO 600
- Part III. Technology for Advanced Gravitational Wave Detectors
- 9. Lasers for high optical power interferometers
- 10. Thermal noise, suspensions and test masses
- 11. Vibration isolation
- Part 1. Seismic isolation for advanced LIGO
- Part 2. Passive isolation
- 12. Interferometer sensing and control
- 13. Stabilizing interferometers against high optical power effects
- Part IV. Technology for Third Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors
- 14. Cryogenic interferometers
- 15. Quantum theory of laser-interferometer GW detectors
- 16. ET. A third generation observatory
- Index
