Aspects of mirrors and suspensions for advanced gravitational wave detectors

Gravitational waves were first predicted by Albert Einstein's Theory of general relativity, published in 1916. These waves are perturbations in the curvature of space-time. Indirect evidence of their existence has been obtained via observations of binary pulsar system inspirals by Hulse and Tay...

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Main Author: Cumming, Alan V.
Published: University of Glasgow 2008
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500999