Gravitational Waves

WEEK 12:  OVERVIEW OF LIGO INTERFEROMETERS; THERMAL NOISES IN GW INTERFEROMETERS

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Lecture 21 (Alan Weinstein: Overview of LIGO interferometers)

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Lecture 22 (Phil Willems: Thermal noises in GW interferometers)

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Readings

• Martin Regehr's PhD thesis

Suggested Reading and Exercises:

• assignment 12
• solutions to the exercises
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