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MPI for Gravitational Physics Sep 26, 2024

📣 New Research Highlight 📣

Sensing the seismic – A new compact inertial sensor for a wide range of physics experiments

ℹ️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1182799/sensing-the-seismic
📄 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-68623-0 (Open Access)

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Sensing the seismic

A research team has developed a novel compact inertial sensor for precision measurements in gravitational-wave detection and other physics experiments. Its high-precision performance, compact size, and vacuum compatibility, make it ideal for seismic isolation systems.

MPI for Gravitational Physics Feb 21, 2023

New selected research highlight: Improving seismic motion isolation of gravitational-wave detectors such as @LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and future detectors like the Einstein Telescope and Cosmic Explorer.

👉 https://aei.mpg.de/1001835/improving-seismic-motion-isolation-of-gravitational-wave-detectors

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Improving seismic motion isolation of gravitational-wave detectors

A team of AEI researchers has now demonstrated how a suspension platform interferometer – an interferometric and optical position sensor – can reduce input motion and supress noise in the seismic isolation of Interferometric gravitational-wave detectors. Overall, they stabilized the length of a suspended optical resonator with a length of more than ten meters and reduced the differential motion by three orders of magnitude. The results are relevant for current and future gravitational-wave detectors.