Astrophysical Sources
for
Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors


Day 1: Ground-Based Gravitational Wave Detectors

"Real data is ugly." [Barish]
TAMA is practically up and running! ACTION
With signal recycling, thermal management becomes more of a problem. [Fritschel]
Within its first few hours of operation, LIGO II will equal an entire year of LIGO I.
Noise is noise.
iht/m + (- iht/m ) = 0 [Thorne] ACTION
The green thing is the beam from the laser! Go
A high duty cycle is critically important. [Hamilton]



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