Low Frequency Isolation Systems for Gravitational Wave Interferometers

将开展开发有源低频隔离系统的初步工作。这将集中在建造和测试初步隔离阶段，该阶段将在至少3个甚至可能6个自由度下运行。这将为进一步的发展提供一个低噪音的环境，并使这个科罗拉多大学的团队在具有多个自由度的隔离系统方面获得经验。这项工作将为设计先进的接收器系统奠定基础，该系统可能会被添加到拟议中的加州理工大学/麻省理工学院激光干涉器引力波天文台(LIGO)，该天文台将探测低频(1至100赫兹)信号。它还将对科学和技术中的各种精密系统产生兴趣。

Preliminary work on the development of an active low frequency isolation system will be carried out. This will concentrate on the building and testing of a preliminary isolation stage which will operate in at least 3 and probably 6 degrees of freedom. This will make possible a low noise environment for further developments, as well as give this University of Colorado group experience with isolation systems with multiple degrees of freedom. This work will lay the groundwork for the design of advanced receiver systems which may be added to the proposed Caltech/MIT Laser Interferomer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO), which will probe for low frequency (1 to 100 Hz) signals. It will also be of interest for a wide variety of precision systems in science and technology.