Journal
CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM GRAVITY
Volume 33, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/33/7/075003
Keywords
low-frequency gravitational-wave detector; tensor gravitational-wave detector; SOGRO; Newtonian noise mitigation
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Funding
- NSF [PHY1105030]
- NASA [NNX14AI43G]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) [NRF-2006-0093852]
- Marie-Curie Fellowship
- NASA [NNX14AI43G, 681309] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Terrestrial gravitational-wave (GW) detectors are mostly based on Michelson-type laser interferometers with arm lengths of a few km and signal bandwidths of tens of Hz to a few kHz. Many conceivable sources would emit GWs below 10 Hz. A low-frequency tensor GW detector can be constructed by combining six magnetically levitated superconducting test masses. Seismic noise and Newtonian gravity noise are serious obstacles in constructing terrestrial GW detectors at such low frequencies. By using the transverse nature of GWs, a full tensor detector, which can in principle distinguish GWs from near-field Newtonian gravity, can be constructed. Such a tensor detector is sensitive to GWs coming from any direction with any polarization; thus a single antenna is capable of resolving the source direction and polarization. We present a design concept of a tensor GW detector that could reach a strain sensitivity of 10(-19)-10(-20) Hz(-1/2) at 0.2-10 Hz, compute its intrinsic detector noise, and discuss procedures of mitigating the seismic and Newtonian noise.
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