The GEO 600 gravitational wave detector

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.

Bernard F. Schutz | Peter Aufmuth | C. Aulbert | Benno Willke | Karsten Danzmann | Carsten Fallnich | I. Zawischa | S. Berukoff | M. M. Casey | M. Hewitson | Kasem Mossavi | Kenneth A. Strain | U. Weiland | Herbert Welling | Graham Woan | Andreas Freise | Curt Cutler | Albrecht Rüdiger | Suvadeep Bose | Gerhard Heinzel | Oliver Jennrich | A. Grant | A. W. Heptonstall | M. Heurs | Harald Lück | G. P. Newton | Benjamin J. Owen | Sheila Rowan | Roland Schilling | C. I. Torrie | Alberto Vecchio | Walter Winkler | David Crooks | G. Cagnoli | M. A. Papa | N. A. Robertson | Peter H. Sneddon | D. Churches | Volker Quetschke | R. Senior | Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash | C. N. Colacino | Kenneth D. Skeldon | Ramachandran Balasubramanian | Hartmut Grote | H. Ward | S. Babak | A. Heptonstall | H. Lück | K. Mossavi | S. Mukherjee | B. Owen | M. Papa | V. Quetschke | S. Rowan | A. Rüdiger | R. Schilling | B. Schutz | A. Sintes | P. Aufmuth | G. Cagnoli | K. Danzmann | A. Freise | A. Grant | H. Grote | M. Heurs | J. Hough | K. Kawabe | K. Strain | A. Vecchio | B. Willke | W. Winkler | G. Woan | S. Bose | B. Sathyaprakash | C. Aulbert | C. Torrie | N. Robertson | S. Nagano | S. Gossler | G. Heinzel | M. Hewitson | D. Robertson | H. Ward | C. Fallnich | H. Welling | O. Jennrich | P. Sneddon | M. Plissi | K. Skeldon | B. Barr | G. Newton | D. Clubley | P. Mcnamara | S. Mohanty | C. Colacino | S. Berukoff | C. Cutler | K. Kawabe | R. Dupuis | V. Leonhardt | B. W. Barr | J. H. Hough | Alicia M. Sintes | David I. Robertson | E. J. Elliffe | S. Nagano | Stanislav Babak | S. Mohanty | I. Zawischa | M. V. Plissi | D. Crooks | R. J. Dupuis | Volker Leonhardt | Morag M. Casey | K. Kötter | M. Malec | P. W. McNamara | Stefan Goßler | Ian Taylor | D. A Clubley | R. Davies | S. McIntosh | Subroto Mukherjee | D. A. Palmer | F. Stief | P. Williams | M. Malec | E. Elliffe | R. Balasubramanian | D. Churches | K. Kötter | R. Davies | I. Taylor | U. Weiland | P. Williams | D. Palmer | S. McIntosh | R. Senior | F. Stief | K. Kawabe

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