The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector
Open Access
- 12 March 2002
- journal article
- Published by IOP Publishing in Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Vol. 19 (7), 1377-1387
- https://doi.org/10.1088/0264-9381/19/7/321
Abstract
The GEO 600 laser interferometer with 600 m armlength is part of a worldwide network of gravitational wave detectors. Due to the use of advanced technologies like multiple pendulum suspensions with a monolithic last stage and signal recycling, the anticipated sensitivity of GEO 600 is close to the initial sensitivity of detectors with several kilometres armlength. This paper describes the subsystems of GEO 600, the status of the detector by September 2001 and the plans towards the first science run.Keywords
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