Thermal-noise-limited underground interferometer CLIO (2009)
Agatsuma, Kazuhiro, Arai, Koji, Fujimoto, Masa-Katsu, Kawamura, Seiji, Kuroda, Kazuaki, Miyakawa, Osamu, ...
We report on the current status of CLIO (Cryogenic Laser Interferometer Observatory), which is a prototype interferometer for LCGT (Large scale Cryogenic Gravitational-wave Telescope). LCGT is a...
Direct Measurement of Thermal Fluctuation of High-Q Pendulum (2009)
Agatsuma, Kazuhiro, Uchiyama, Takashi, Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Ohashi, Masatake, Kawamura, Seiji, Miyoki, Shinji, ...
We achieved for the first time a direct measurement of the thermal fluctuation of a pendulum in an off-resonant region using a laser interferometric gravitational wave detector. These measurements...
Ando, Masaki, Kawamura, Seiji, Sato, Shuichi, Nakamura, Takashi, Tsubono, Kimio, Araya, Akito, ...
DECIGO pathfinder (DPF) is a milestone satellite mission for DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory), which is a future space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected...
Ando, Masaki, Kawamura, Seiji, Nakamura, Takashi, Tsubono, Kimio, Tanaka, Takahiro, Funaki, Ikkoh, ...
DECIGO pathfinder (DPF) is a milestone satellite mission for DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) which is a future space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected...
The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna; DECIGO (2008)
Kawamura, Seiji, Ando, Masaki, Nakamura, Takashi, Tsubono, Kimio, Tanaka, Takahiro, Funaki, Ikkoh, ...
DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected to open a new window of observation for gravitational...
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Hayakawa, Hideaki, Okada, Atsushi, Uchiyama, Takashi, Miyoki, Shinji, Ohashi, Masatake, ...
We investigated the noise of interferometric gravitational wave detectors due to heat energy deposited by cosmic-ray particles. We derived a general formula that describes the response of a mirror...
Search for continuous gravitational waves from PSR J0835-4510 using CLIO data (2008)
Akutsu, Tomomi, Ando, Masaki, Haruyama, Tomiyoshi, Kanda, Nobuyuki, Kuroda, Kazuaki, Miyoki, Shinji, ...
We search for continuous gravitational waves from PSR J0835-4510 at twice its rotational frequency using CLIO (Cryogenic Laser Interferometric Observatory) in the Kamioka mine. In this search, we use...
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Hayakawa, Hideaki, Okada, Atsushi, Uchiyama, Takashi, Miyoki, Shinji, Ohashi, Masatake, ...
We investigated the noise of interferometric gravitational wave detectors due to heat energy deposited by cosmic-ray particles. We derived a general formula that describes the response of a mirror...
Ando, M., Kawamura, Seiji, Nakamura, T., Tsubono, K., Tanaka, T., Funaki, I., ...
DECIGO pathfinder (DPF) is a milestone satellite mission for DECIGO (DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory) which is a future space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected...
The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna: DECIGO (2008)
Kawamura, Seiji, Ando, M., Nakamura, T., Tsubono, K., Tanaka, T., Funaki, I., ...
DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. DECIGO is expected to open a new window of observation for gravitational...
The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna - DECIGO (2008)
Kawamura, Seiji, Ando, M., Nakamura, T., Tsubono, K., Tanaka, T., Funaki, I., ...
DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. The goal of DECIGO is to detect gravitational waves from various kinds of...
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Hayakawa, Hideaki, Okada, Atsushi, Uchiyama, Takashi, Miyoki, Shinji, Ohashi, Masatake, ...
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Tomaru, Takayuki, Tokunari, Masao, Kuroda, Kazuaki, Uchiyama, Takashi, Okutomi, Akira, Ohashi, Masatake, ...
A large heat load caused by thermal radiation through a metal shield pipe was observed in a cooling test of a cryostat for a prototype of a cryogenic interferometric gravitational wave detector. The...
Current status of Japanese detectors (2007)
Tatsumi, Daisuke, Takahashi, Ryutaro, Arai, Koji, Nakagawa, Noriyasu, Agatsuma, Kazuhiro, Yamazaki, Toshitaka, ...
Current status of TAMA and CLIO detectors in Japan is reported in this article. These two interferometric gravitational-wave detectors are being developed for the large cryogenic gravitational wave...
Yamamoto, Kazuhiro, Miyoki, Shinji, Uchiyama, Takashi, Ishitsuka, Hideki, Ohashi, Masatake, Kuroda, Kazuaki, ...
We have measured the mechanical loss of a dielectric multilayer reflective coating (ion-beam sputtered SiO$_2$ and Ta$_2$O$_5$) in cooled mirrors. The loss was nearly independent of the temperature...
Search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in LIGO data (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from binary black hole inspirals in the data from the second science run of the LIGO interferometers. The search focused on binary systems with component...
Joint LIGO and TAMA300 search for gravitational waves from inspiralling neutron star binaries (2006)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
We search for coincident gravitational wave signals from inspiralling neutron star binaries using LIGO and TAMA300 data taken during early 2003. Using a simple trigger exchange method, we perform an...
Akutsu, Tomomi, Akutsu, Tomotadu, Ando, Masaki, Arai, Koji, Araya, Akito, Asada, H., ...
We analyze the data of the TAMA300 detector to search for gravitational waves from inspiraling compact star binaries with masses of the component stars in the range 1M[sun]–3M[sun]. In this...
The Japanese space gravitational wave antenna - DECIGO (2006)
Kawamura, Seiji, Nakamura, T., Ando, M., Seto, N., Tsubono, K., Numata, K., ...
DECi-hertz Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (DECIGO) is the future Japanese space gravitational wave antenna. It aims at detecting various kinds of gravitational waves between 1 mHz and...
Upper limits from the LIGO and TAMA detectors on the rate of gravitational-wave bursts (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Ajith, P., ...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Allen, Bruce, ...
We perform a wide parameter-space search for continuous gravitational waves over the whole sky and over a large range of values of the frequency and the first spin-down parameter. Our search method...
Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's second science run (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Agresti, Juri, Allen, Bruce, ...
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We use data from the second science run of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors to search for the gravitational waves from primordial black hole binary coalescence with component masses in the range...
Search for gravitational waves from galactic and extra-galactic binary neutron stars (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We use 373 hours ([approximate]15 days) of data from the second science run of the LIGO gravitational-wave detectors to search for signals from binary neutron star coalescences within a maximum...
Limits on gravitational-wave emission from selected pulsars using LIGO data (2005)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Ando, M., Arai, K., Aso, Y., Beyersdorf, P. T., Hayama, K., Iida, Y., ...
Ando, Masaki, Arai, Koji, Aso, Youichi, Beyersdorf, Peter, Hayama, Kazuhiro, Iida, Yukiyoshi, ...
We present data-analysis schemes and results of observations with the TAMA300 gravitational-wave detector, targeting burst signals from stellar-core collapse events. In analyses for burst...
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
For 17 days in August and September 2002, the LIGO and GEO interferometer gravitational wave detectors were operated in coincidence to produce their first data for scientific analysis. Although the...
Upper limits on the strength of periodic gravitational waves from PSR J1939+2134 (2004)
Woan, G., Allen, Bruce, Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Amin, R., ...
The first science run of the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors presented the opportunity to test methods of searching for gravitational waves from known pulsars. Here we present new direct...
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Data collected by the GEO 600 and LIGO interferometric gravitational wave detectors during their first observational science run were searched for continuous gravitational waves from the pulsar J1939...
Analysis of first LIGO science data for stochastic gravitational waves (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We present the analysis of between 50 and 100 h of coincident interferometric strain data used to search for and establish an upper limit on a stochastic background of gravitational radiation. These...
First upper limits from LIGO on gravitational wave bursts (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, R., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational wave bursts using data from the first science run of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors. Our search focuses on bursts...
LIGO: S1 Science Results and Plans Beyond (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
Analysis of LIGO data for gravitational waves from binary neutron stars (2004)
Abbott, B., Abbott, F., Adhikari, R., Ageev, A., Allen, Bruce, Amin, R., ...
We report on a search for gravitational waves from coalescing compact binary systems in the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds. The analysis uses data taken by two of the three LIGO interferometers...
Tomaru, Takayuki, Miyoki, Shinji, Ohashi, Masatake, Kuroda, Kazuaki, Uchiyama, Takashi, Suzuki, Toshikazu, ...
We evaluated the performance of polished mirror surfaces for the TAMA interferometric gravitational wave detector by comparing the experimental results with a wave-front tracing simulation. The TAMA...
Thermal lensing in cryogenic sapphire substrates (2002)
Tomaru, Takayuki, Suzuki, Toshikazu, Miyoki, Shinji, Uchiyama, Takashi, Taylor, C. T., Yamamoto, Akira, ...
We report the reduction of the thermal lensing in cryogenic sapphire mirrors, which is planed to be used in the Large scale Cryogenic Gravitational wave Telescope (LCGT) project. We measured three...
Tomaru, Takayuki, Uchiyama, Takashi, Tatsumi, Daisuke, Miyoki, Shinji, Ohashi, Masatake, Kuroda, Kazuaki, ...
We have applied laser calorimetry to the measurement of optical absorption in mono-crystalline sapphire at cryogenic temperatures. Sapphire is a promising candidate for the mirror substrates of the...
Sato, Shuichi, Ohashi, Masatake, Fujimoto, Masa-Katsu, Fukushima, Mitsuhiro, Waseda, Koichi, Miyoki, Shinji, ...
Power recycling was implemented on a fully suspended prototype interferometer with arm lengths of 20 m. A wave-front-sensing technique for alignment control of the suspended mirrors was also...