Characterisation of the mechanical properties of thin-film mirror coating materials for use in future interferometric gravitational wave detectors
Predicted by Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, gravitational waves are periodic fluctuations in the curvature of space-time that propagate at the speed of light and are caused by acceleration of asymmetric mass distributions. The first ever direct detection of gravitational waves was a signal...
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University of Glasgow
2018
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.744225 |