Skip to main page content
U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Dot gov

The .gov means it’s official.
Federal government websites often end in .gov or .mil. Before sharing sensitive information, make sure you’re on a federal government site.

Https

The site is secure.
The https:// ensures that you are connecting to the official website and that any information you provide is encrypted and transmitted securely.

Access keys NCBI Homepage MyNCBI Homepage Main Content Main Navigation
. 2007 Jun 10;46(17):3466-84.
doi: 10.1364/ao.46.003466.

Measurement of the optical parameters of the Virgo interferometer

Virgo Collaboration  1 ; Fausto Acernese, Mohamed Alshourbagy, Paolo Amico, S Aoudia, Federica Antonucci, P Astone, Saverio Avino, D Babusci, G Ballardin, Fabrizio Barone, Matteo Barsuglia, Lisa Barsotti, Fabrice Beauville, Stefano Bigotta, Simona Birindelli, Marie-Anne Bizouard, Albert-Claude Boccara, François Bondu, Leone Bosi, Stefano Braccini, Carlo Bradaschia, Alain Brillet, Violette Brisson, Laura Brocco, Damir Buskulic, Enrico Calloni, Enrico Campagna, Fabien Cavalier, Franco Carbognani, Roberto Cavalieri, Giancarlo Cella, E Cesarini, Eric Chassande-Motin, N Christensen, Andre-Claude Clapson, Cleva Frédéric, Christian Corda, A Corsi, Francesco Cottone, Jean-Pierre Coulon, Elena Cuoco, Anna Dari, Vicenzo Datillo, Michel Davier, M del Prete, Rosario De Rosa, Luciano Di Fiore, Angela Di Virgilio, Bénédicte Dujardin, A Eleuteri, Isidoro Ferrante, Francesco Fidecaro, Irene Fiori, Raffaele Flaminio, Jean Daniel Fourier, Sergio Frasca, Franco Frasconi, Olivier Francois, Luca Gammaitoni, F Garufi, E Genin, Alberto Gennai, Adalberto Giazotto, G Giordano, Lara Giordano, Romain Gouaty, Daniel Grosjean, Gianluca M Guidi, Salem Hebri, Henrich Heitmann, Patrice Hello, Sonia Karkar, Stephane Kreckelbergh, Paolo La Penna, Mikael Laval, Nicolas Leroy, Nicolas Letendre, B Lopez, Matteo Lorenzini, Vincent Loriette, Giovanni Losurdo, Jean-Marie Mackowski, Ettore Majorana, Maddalena Mantovani, Fabio Marchesoni, Frédérique Marion, Julien Marque, Filippo Martelli, Alain Masserot, Massimo Mazzoni, F Menzinger, J Moreau, Leopoldo Milano, Christophe Moins, Nazario Morgado, Benoit Mours, Catherine Nary-Man, Flavio Nocera, A Pai, Cristiano Palomba, Federico Paoletti, Silvio Pardi, Antonio Pasqualetti, Roberto Passaquieti, Diego Passuello, B Perniola, Francesco Piergiovanni, Laurent Pinard, Rosa Poggiani, Michele Punturo, Paola Puppo, K Qipiani, Piero Rapagnani, Fulvio Ricci, V Reita, Alban Remillieux, Iolanda Ricciardi, Paolo Ruggi, Guido Russo, Salvatore Solimeno, Alessandro Spallicci, R Stanga, M Tarallo, Alessandra Toncelli, Mauro Tonelli, Edwige Tournefier, Flavio Travasso, C Tremola, Gabriele Vajente, Didier Verkindt, Flavia Vetrano, Andrea Viceré, Jean Yves Vinet, Helios Vocca, Michel Yvert
Affiliations
Free article

Measurement of the optical parameters of the Virgo interferometer

Virgo Collaboration et al. Appl Opt. .
Free article

Abstract

The Virgo interferometer, aimed at detecting gravitational waves, is now in a commissioning phase. Measurements of its optical properties are needed for the understanding of the instrument. We present the techniques developed for the measurement of the optical parameters of Virgo. These parameters are compared with the Virgo specifications.

PubMed Disclaimer

Similar articles

  • Swope Supernova Survey 2017a (SSS17a), the optical counterpart to a gravitational wave source.
    Coulter DA, Foley RJ, Kilpatrick CD, Drout MR, Piro AL, Shappee BJ, Siebert MR, Simon JD, Ulloa N, Kasen D, Madore BF, Murguia-Berthier A, Pan YC, Prochaska JX, Ramirez-Ruiz E, Rest A, Rojas-Bravo C. Coulter DA, et al. Science. 2017 Dec 22;358(6370):1556-1558. doi: 10.1126/science.aap9811. Epub 2017 Oct 16. Science. 2017. PMID: 29038368
  • A state observer for the Virgo inverted pendulum.
    Accadia T, Acernese F, Astone P, Ballardin G, Barone F, Barsuglia M, Basti A, Bauer TS, Bebronne M, Beker MG, Belletoile A, Bitossi M, Bizouard MA, Blom M, Bondu F, Bonelli L, Bonnand R, Boschi V, Bosi L, Bouhou B, Braccini S, Bradaschia C, Branchesi M, Briant T, Brillet A, Brisson V, Bulik T, Bulten HJ, Buskulic D, Buy C, Cagnoli G, Calloni E, Canuel B, Carbognani F, Cavalier F, Cavalieri R, Cella G, Cesarini E, Chaibi O, Chassande-Mottin E, Chincarini A, Chiummo A, Cleva F, Coccia E, Cohadon PF, Colacino CN, Colas J, Colla A, Colombini M, Conte A, Corsi A, Coulon JP, Cuoco E, D' Antonio S, Dattilo V, Davier M, Day R, De Rosa R, Debreczeni G, Del Pozzo W, del Prete M, Di Fiore L, Di Lieto A, Di Paolo Emilio M, Di Virgilio A, Dietz A, Drago M, Endroczi G, Fafone V, Ferrante I, Fidecaro F, Fiori I, Flaminio R, Forte LA, Fournier JD, Franc J, Frasca S, Frasconi F, Galimberti M, Gammaitoni L, Garufi F, Gáspár ME, Gemme G, Genin E, Gennai A, Giazotto A, Gouaty R, Granata M, Greverie C, Guidi GM, Hayau JF, Heidmann A, Heitmann H, Hello P, Jaranowski P, Kowalska I, Królak A, Leroy N, Letendre N, Li TG, Liguori N, Lorenzini M, Loriette V, Losurdo G, Majorana E, Maksimovic I, Man N, Manto… See abstract for full author list ➔ Accadia T, et al. Rev Sci Instrum. 2011 Sep;82(9):094502. doi: 10.1063/1.3637466. Rev Sci Instrum. 2011. PMID: 21974605
  • A two per cent Hubble constant measurement from standard sirens within five years.
    Chen HY, Fishbach M, Holz DE. Chen HY, et al. Nature. 2018 Oct;562(7728):545-547. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0606-0. Epub 2018 Oct 17. Nature. 2018. PMID: 30333628
  • A gravitational-wave standard siren measurement of the Hubble constant.
    LIGO Scientific Collaboration and The Virgo Collaboration; 1M2H Collaboration; Dark Energy Camera GW-EM Collaboration and the DES Collaboration; DLT40 Collaboration; Las Cumbres Observatory Collaboration; VINROUGE Collaboration; MASTER Collaboration. LIGO Scientific Collaboration and The Virgo Collaboration, et al. Nature. 2017 Nov 2;551(7678):85-88. doi: 10.1038/nature24471. Epub 2017 Oct 16. Nature. 2017. PMID: 29094696
  • Constraints on cosmic strings from the LIGO-Virgo gravitational-wave detectors.
    Aasi J, Abadie J, Abbott BP, Abbott R, Abbott T, Abernathy MR, Accadia T, Acernese F, Adams C, Adams T, Adhikari RX, Affeldt C, Agathos M, Aggarwal N, Aguiar OD, Ajith P, Allen B, Allocca A, Amador Ceron E, Amariutei D, Anderson RA, Anderson SB, Anderson WG, Arai K, Araya MC, Arceneaux C, Areeda J, Ast S, Aston SM, Astone P, Aufmuth P, Aulbert C, Austin L, Aylott BE, Babak S, Baker PT, Ballardin G, Ballmer SW, Barayoga JC, Barker D, Barnum SH, Barone F, Barr B, Barsotti L, Barsuglia M, Barton MA, Bartos I, Bassiri R, Basti A, Batch J, Bauchrowitz J, Bauer TS, Bebronne M, Behnke B, Bejger M, Beker MG, Bell AS, Bell C, Belopolski I, Bergmann G, Berliner JM, Bersanetti D, Bertolini A, Bessis D, Betzwieser J, Beyersdorf PT, Bhadbhade T, Bilenko IA, Billingsley G, Birch J, Bitossi M, Bizouard MA, Black E, Blackburn JK, Blackburn L, Blair D, Blom M, Bock O, Bodiya TP, Boer M, Bogan C, Bond C, Bondu F, Bonelli L, Bonnand R, Bork R, Born M, Boschi V, Bose S, Bosi L, Bowers J, Bradaschia C, Brady PR, Braginsky VB, Branchesi M, Brannen CA, Brau JE, Breyer J, Briant T, Bridges DO, Brillet A, Brinkmann M, Brisson V, Britzger M, Brooks AF, Brown DA, Brown DD, Brückner F, Bulik T, Bulten HJ, Bu… See abstract for full author list ➔ Aasi J, et al. Phys Rev Lett. 2014 Apr 4;112(13):131101. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.131101. Epub 2014 Apr 4. Phys Rev Lett. 2014. PMID: 24745400
See all similar articles

Cited by

  • A mirrorless spinwave resonator.
    Pinel O, Everett JL, Hosseini M, Campbell GT, Buchler BC, Lam PK. Pinel O, et al. Sci Rep. 2015 Dec 10;5:17633. doi: 10.1038/srep17633. Sci Rep. 2015. PMID: 26655839 Free PMC article.

LinkOut - more resources