Detector description and performance for the first coincidence observations between LIGO and GEO

• DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2003.11.124
• Publication Date: 2003-12-09T11:55:53Z
• Authors: B. Abbott; R. Abbott; R. Adhikari; A. Ageev; B. Allen; R. Amin; S.B. Anderson; W.G. Anderson; M. Araya; H. Armandula; F. Asiri; P. Aufmuth; C. Aulbert; S. Babak; R. Balasubramanian; S. Ballmer; B.C. Barish; D. Barker; C. Barker-Patton; M. Barnes; B. Barr; M.A. Barton; K. Bayer; R. Beausoleil; K. Belczynski; R. Bennett; S.J. Berukoff; J. Betzwieser; B. Bhawal; I.A. Bilenko; G. Billingsley; E. Black; K. Blackburn; B. Bland-Weaver; B. Bochner; L. Bogue; R. Bork; S. Bose; P.R. Brady; V.B. Braginsky; J.E. Brau; D.A. Brown; S. Brozek; A. Bullington; A. Buonanno; R. Burgess; D. Busby; W.E. Butler; R.L. Byer; L. Cadonati; G. Cagnoli; J.B. Camp; C.A. Cantley; L. Cardenas; K. Carter; M.M. Casey; J. Castiglione; A. Chandler; J. Chapsky; P. Charlton; S. Chatterji; Y. Chen; V. Chickarmane; D. Chin; N. Christensen; D. Churches; C. Colacino; R. Coldwell; M. Coles; D. Cook; T. Corbitt; D. Coyne; J.D.E. Creighton; T.D. Creighton; D.R.M. Crooks; P. Csatorday; B.J. Cusack; C. Cutler; E. D'Ambrosio; K. Danzmann; R. Davies; E. Daw; D. DeBra; T. Delker; R. DeSalvo; S. Dhurandar; M. Dı́az; H. Ding; R.W.P. Drever; R.J. Dupuis; C. Ebeling; J. Edlund; P. Ehrens; E.J. Elliffe; T. Etzel; M. Evans; T. Evans; C. Fallnich; D. Farnham; M.M. Fejer; M. Fine; L.S. Finn; É. Flanagan; A. Freise; R. Frey; P. Fritschel; V. Frolov; M. Fyffe; K.S. Ganezer; J.A. Giaime; A. Gillespie; K. Goda; G. González; S. Goßler; P. Grandclément; A. Grant; C. Gray; A.M. Gretarsson; D. Grimmett; H. Grote; S. Grunewald; M. Guenther; E. Gustafson; R. Gustafson; W.O. Hamilton; M. Hammond; J. Hanson; C. Hardham; G. Harry; A. Hartunian; J. Heefner; Y. Hefetz; G. Heinzel; I.S. Heng; M. Hennessy; N. Hepler; A. Heptonstall; M. Heurs; M. Hewitson; N. Hindman; P. Hoang; J. Hough; M. Hrynevych; W. Hua; R. Ingley; M. Ito; Y. Itoh; A. Ivanov; O. Jennrich; W.W. Johnson; W. Johnston; L. Jones; D. Jungwirth; V. Kalogera; E. Katsavounidis; K. Kawabe; S. Kawamura; W. Kells; J. Kern; A. Khan; S. Killbourn; C.J. Killow; C. Kim; C. King; P. King; S. Klimenko; P. Kloevekorn; S. Koranda; K. Kötter; J. Kovalik; D. Kozak; B. Krishnan; M. Landry; J. Langdale; B. Lantz; R. Lawrence; A. Lazzarini; M. Lei; V. Leonhardt; I. Leonor; K. Libbrecht; P. Lindquist; S. Liu; J. Logan; M. Lormand; M. Lubinski; H. Lück; T.T. Lyons; B. Machenschalk; M. MacInnis; M. Mageswaran; K. Mailand; W. Majid; M. Malec; F. Mann; A. Marin; S. Márka; E. Maros; J. Mason; K. Mason; O. Matherny; L. Matone; N. Mavalvala; R. McCarthy; D.E. McClelland; M. McHugh; P. McNamara; G. Mendell; S. Meshkov; C. Messenger; V.P. Mitrofanov; G. Mitselmakher; R. Mittleman; O. Miyakawa; S. Miyoki; S. Mohanty; G. Moreno; K. Mossavi; B. Mours; G. Mueller; S. Mukherjee; J. Myers; S. Nagano; T. Nash; H. Naundorf; R. Nayak; G. Newton; F. Nocera; P. Nutzman; T. Olson; B. O'Reilly; D. J. Ottaway; A. Ottewill; D. Ouimette; H. Overmier; B.J. Owen; M.A. Papa; C. Parameswariah; V. Parameswariah; M. Pedraza; S. Penn; M. Pitkin; M. Plissi; M. Pratt; V. Quetschke; F. Raab; H. Radkins; R. Rahkola; M. Rakhmanov; S.R. Rao; D. Redding; M.W. Regehr; T. Regimbau; K.T. Reilly; K. Reithmaier; D.H. Reitze; S. Richman; R. Riesen; K. Riles; A. Rizzi; D.I. Robertson; N.A. Robertson; L. Robison; S. Roddy; J. Rollins; J.D. Romano; J. Romie; H. Rong; D. Rose; E. Rotthoff; S. Rowan; A. Rüdiger; P. Russell; K. Ryan; I. Salzman; G.H. Sanders; V. Sannibale; B. Sathyaprakash; P.R. Saulson; R. Savage; A. Sazonov; R. Schilling; K. Schlaufman; V. Schmidt; R. Schofield; M. Schrempel; B.F. Schutz; P. Schwinberg; S.M. Scott; A.C. Searle; B. Sears; S. Seel; A.S. Sengupta; C.A. Shapiro; P. Shawhan; D.H. Shoemaker; Q.Z. Shu; A. Sibley; X. Siemens; L. Sievers; D. Sigg; A.M. Sintes; K. Skeldon; J.R. Smith; M. Smith; M.R. Smith; P. Sneddon; R. Spero; G. Stapfer; K.A. Strain; D. Strom; A. Stuver; T. Summerscales; M.C. Sumner; P.J. Sutton; J. Sylvestre; A. Takamori; D.B. Tanner; H. Tariq; I. Taylor; R. Taylor; K.S. Thorne; M. Tibbits; S. Tilav; M. Tinto; K.V. Tokmakov; C. Torres; C. Torrie; S. Traeger; G. Traylor; W. Tyler; D. Ugolini; M. Vallisneri; M. van Putten; S. Vass; A. Vecchio; C. Vorvick; S.P. Vyatchanin; L. Wallace; H. Walther; H. Ward; B. Ware; K. Watts; D. Webber; A. Weidner; U. Weiland; A. Weinstein; R. Weiss; H. Welling; L. Wen; S. Wen; J.T. Whelan; S.E. Whitcomb; B.F. Whiting; P.A. Willems; P.R. Williams; R. Williams; B. Willke; A. Wilson; B.J. Winjum; W. Winkler; S. Wise; A.G. Wiseman; G. Woan; R. Wooley; J. Worden; I. Yakushin; H. Yamamoto; S. Yoshida; I. Zawischa; L. Zhang; N. Zotov; M. Zucker; J. Zweizig
• Keywords: Physics; FOS: Physical sciences; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc); 07.60.Ly; 530; 01 natural sciences; General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology; 04.89.Nn; 95.45.+i; [SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]; 0103 physical sciences; 95.55.Ym; LIGO; Observatory; Interferometer; Gravitational wave; QC

41 pages, 9 figures 17 Sept 03: author list amended, minor editorial changes<br/>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 detectors were still far from their design sensitivity levels, the data can be used to place better upper limits on the flux of gravitational waves incident on the earth than previous direct measurements. This paper describes the instruments and the data in some detail, as a companion to analysis papers based on the first data.<br/>