Author/Authors :
Abadie، نويسنده , , J. and Abbott، نويسنده , , B.P. and Abbott، نويسنده , , R. Paul Abernathy، نويسنده , , M. and Adams، نويسنده , , Narayan C. and Adhikari، نويسنده , , R. and Ajith، نويسنده , , P. and Allen، نويسنده , , B. and Allen، نويسنده , , G. and Amador Ceron، نويسنده , , E. and Amin، نويسنده , , R.S. and Anderson، نويسنده , , S.B. and Anderson، نويسنده , , W.G. and Arain، نويسنده , , M.A. and Araya، نويسنده , , M. and Aronsson، نويسنده , , M. ، نويسنده ,
Abstract :
The Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) is a network of three detectors built to detect local perturbations in the space–time 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.
Keywords :
Interferometer , Calibration , gravitational waves , control systems
