• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Resonant-Mass Detectors of Gravitational Radiation
  • Contributor: Michelson, Peter F.; Price, John C.; Taber, Robert C.
  • imprint: The American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987
  • Published in: Science
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
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  • Description: <p>A network of second-generation low-temperature gravitational radiation detectors is nearing completion. These detectors, sensitive to mechanical strains of order 10$^{-18}$, are possible because of a variety of technical innovations hat have been made in cryogenics, low-noise superconducting instrumentation, and vibration isolation techniques. Another five orders of magnitude improvement in energy sensitivity of resonant-mass detectors is possible before the linear amplifier quantum limit is encountered.</p>