2000/12/01 by Sheila Rowan, Jim Hough · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Engineering · #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Geophysics and Sensor Technology #Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates
paper · pdf · doi:10.12942/lrr-2000-3
openalex publication_date 2000/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
Abstract Significant progress has been made in recent years on the development of gravitational wave detectors. Sources such as coalescing compact binary systems, low-mass X-ray binaries, stellar collapses and pulsars are all possible candidates for detection. The most promising design of gravitational wave detector uses test masses a long distance apart and freely suspended as pendulums on Earth or in drag-free craft in space. The main theme of this review is a discussion of the mechanical and optical principles used in the various long baseline systems being built around the world — LIGO (USA), VIRGO (Italy/France), TAMA 300 (Japan) and GEO 600 (Germany/UK) — and in LISA, a proposed space-borne interferometer.