Environmental Noise in Advanced LIGO Detectors
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2021-08-19 v2
Abstract
The sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO detectors to gravitational waves can be affected by environmental disturbances external to the detectors themselves. Since the transition from the former initial LIGO phase, many improvements have been made to the equipment and techniques used to investigate these environmental effects. These methods have aided in tracking down and mitigating noise sources throughout the first three observing runs of the advanced detector era, keeping the ambient contribution of environmental noise below the background noise levels of the detectors. In this paper we describe the methods used and how they have led to the mitigation of noise sources, the role that environmental monitoring has played in the validation of gravitational wave events, and plans for future observing runs.
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@article{arxiv.2101.09935,
title = {Environmental Noise in Advanced LIGO Detectors},
author = {P. Nguyen and R. M. S. Schofield and A. Effler and C. Austin and V. Adya and M. Ball and S. Banagiri and K. Banowetz and C. Billman and C. D. Blair and A. Buikema and C. Cahillane and F. Clara and P. B. Covas and G. Dalya and C. Daniel and B. Dawes and R. DeRosa and S. E. Dwyer and R. Frey and V. Frolov and D. Ghirado and E. Goetz and T. Hardwick and A. F. Helmling-Cornell and I. J. Hollows and N. Kijbunchoo and J. Kruck and M. Laxen and E. Maaske and G. L. Mansell and R. McCarthy and K. Merfeld and A. Neunzer and J. R. Palamos and W. Parker and B. Pearlstone and A. Pele and H. Radkins and V. Roma and R. L. Savage and P. Schale and D. Shoemaker and T. Shoemaker and S. Soni and D. Talukder and M. Tse and G. Valdes and M. Vidreo and C. Vorvick and R. Abbott and C. Adams and R. X. Adhikari and A. Ananyeva and S. Appert and K. Arai and J. S. Areeda and Y. Asali and S. M. Aston and A. M. Baer and S. W. Ballmer and D. Barker and L. Barsotti and J. Bartlett and B. K. Berger and J. Betzwieser and D. Bhattacharjee and G. Billingsley and S. Biscans and R. M. Blair and N. Bode and P. Booker and R. Bork and A. Bramley and A. F. Brooks and D. D. Brown and K. C. Cannon and X. Chen and A. A. Ciobanu and C. M. Compton and S. J. Cooper and K. R. Corley and S. T. Countryman and D. C. Coyne and L. E. H. Datrier and D. Davis and C. Di Fronzo and K. L. Dooley and J. C. Driggers and P. Dupej and T. Etzel and M. Evans and T. M. Evans and J. Feicht and A. Fernandez-Galiana and P. Fritschel and P. Fulda and M. Fyffe and J. A. Giaime and K. D. Giardina and P. Godwin and S. Gras and C. Gray and R. Gray and A. C. Green and E. K. Gustafson and R. Gustafson and J. Hanks and J. Hanson and R. K. Hasskew and M. C. Heintze and N. A. Holland and J. D. Jones and S. Kandhasamy and S. Karki and M. Kasprzack and K. Kawabe and P. J. King and J. S. Kissel and Rahul Kumar and M. Landry and B. B. Lane and B. Lantz and Y. K. Lecoeuche and J. Leviton and J. Liu and M. Lormand and A. P. Lundgren and R. Macas and M. MacInnis and D. M. Macleod and S. Márka and Z. Márka and D. V. Martynov and K. Mason and T. J. Massinger and F. Matichard and N. Mavalvala and D. E. McClelland and S. McCormick and L. McCuller and J. McIver and T. McRae and G. Mendell and E. L. Merilh and F. Meylahn and T. Mistry and R. Mittleman and G. Moreno and C. M. Mow-Lowry and S. Mozzon and A. Mullavey and T. J. N. Nelson and L. K. Nuttall and J. Oberling and Richard J. Oram and C. Osthelder and D. J. Ottaway and H. Overmier and E. Payne and R. Penhorwood and C. J. Perez and M. Pirello and K. E. Ramirez and J. W. Richardson and K. Riles and N. A. Robertson and J. G. Rollins and C. L. Romel and J. H. Romie and M. P. Ross and K. Ryan and T. Sadecki and E. J. Sanchez and L. E. Sanchez and T. R. Saravanan and D. Schaetzl and R. Schnabel and E. Schwartz and D. Sellers and T. Shaffer and D. Sigg and B. J. J. Slagmolen and J. R. Smith and B. Sorazu and A. P. Spencer and K. A. Strain and L. Sun and M. J. Szczepańczyk and M. Thomas and P. Thomas and K. A. Thorne and K. Toland and C. I. Torrie and G. Traylor and A. L. Urban and G. Vajente and D. C. Vander-Hyde and P. J. Veitch and K. Venkateswara and G. Venugopalan and A. D. Viets and T. Vo and M. Wade and R. L. Ward and J. Warner and B. Weaver and R. Weiss and C. Whittle and B. Willke and C. C. Wipf and L. Xiao and H. Yamamoto and Hang Yu and Haocun Yu and L. Zhang and M. E. Zucker and J. Zweizig},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2101.09935},
year = {2021}
}