LIGO Advanced Detector R&D Program Proposal (Group Proposal)

该奖项将为加州理工学院和麻省理工学院的合作努力提供资金，以提高激光干涉仪引力波天文台（LIGO）使用的探测器的灵敏度。 为研发提供了为期一年的资金，预计这将是一个长期计划的开始，以减少可能模仿LIGO引力波信号的噪声。 长期计划将与其他几个机构的科学家合作。 目前正在建立合作关系。 在该奖项的一年期间，将开展以下活动：在加州理工学院40米干涉仪上实施1064 nm波长的激光器，在麻省理工学院干涉仪上准备双摆悬置，在加州理工学院进行热噪声研究;以及在加州理工学院和麻省理工学院进行共振边带提取研究。

This award will provide funds for a collaborative effort at Caltech and MIT to improve the sensitivity of detectors to be used at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Funds are provided for R&D for a period of one year that is expected to be the beginning of a long term program to reduce the noise that could mimic a gravitational-wave signal from LIGO. The long term program will be in collaboration with scientists at several other institutions. The collaborations are currently in the process of being formed. During the one year period of this award, the following activities will take place: implementation of lasers with 1064 nm wavelength at the Caltech 40 Meter Interferometer, preparation for double- pendulum suspensions at the MIT Interferometer, thermal noise research at Caltech; and resonant sideband extraction research at Caltech and MIT.