Author/Authors :
Caron، نويسنده , , B. and Dominjon، نويسنده , , A. and Marion، نويسنده , , F. and Massonnet، نويسنده , , L. and Morand، نويسنده , , R. and Mours، نويسنده , , B. and Yvert، نويسنده , , M. and Babusci، نويسنده , , D. and Fang، نويسنده , , H. and Giordano، نويسنده , , G. and Matone، نويسنده , , G. and Matone، نويسنده , , L. and Sannibale، نويسنده , , V. and Mackowski، نويسنده , , J-M. and Napolitano، نويسنده , , M. and Pinard، نويسنده , , L. and ، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The VIRGO experiment was approved in September 1993. The goal of the French-Italian collaboration is to detect gravitational waves using a 3 km arm-length Michelson interferometer. The construction of this detector, which will be installed in Pisa, is under way. The experiment is planned to take data, in a large bandwidth (10 Hz–10 kHz), at the beginning of the year 2000 with nominal sensitivity close to h=3×10−23/Hz. The motivations, detection principle, main sources of noise and status of the experiment are presented.
