The status of KAGRA underground cryogenic gravitational wave telescope
Abstract
KAGRA is a 3-km interferometric gravitational wave telescope located in the Kamioka mine in Japan. It is the first km-class gravitational wave telescope constructed underground to reduce seismic noise, and the first km-class telescope to use cryogenic cooling of test masses to reduce thermal noise. The construction of the infrastructure to house the interferometer in the tunnel, and the initial phase operation of the interferometer with a simple 3-km Michelson configuration have been completed. The first cryogenic operation is expected in 2018, and the observing runs with a full interferometer are expected in 2020s. The basic interferometer configuration and the current status of KAGRA are described.
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@article{arxiv.1710.04823,
title = {The status of KAGRA underground cryogenic gravitational wave telescope},
author = {KAGRA Collaboration and T. Akutsu and M. Ando and A. Araya and N. Aritomi and H. Asada and Y. Aso and S. Atsuta and K. Awai and M. A. Barton and K. Cannon and K. Craig and W. Creus and K. Doi and K. Eda and Y. Enomoto and R. Flaminio and Y. Fujii and M. -K. Fujimoto and T. Furuhata and S. Haino and K. Hasegawa and K. Hashino and K. Hayama and S. Hirobayashi and E. Hirose and B. H. Hsieh and Y. Inoue and K. Ioka and Y. Itoh and T. Kaji and T. Kajita and M. Kakizaki and M. Kamiizumi and S. Kambara and N. Kanda and S. Kanemura and M. Kaneyama and G. Kang and J. Kasuya and Y. Kataoka and N. Kawai and S. Kawamura and C. Kim and H. Kim and J. Kim and Y. Kim and N. Kimura and T. Kinugawa and S. Kirii and Y. Kitaoka and Y. Kojima and K. Kokeyama and K. Komori and K. Kotake and R. Kumar and H. Lee and H. Lee and Y. Liu and N. Luca and E. Majorana and S. Mano and M. Marchio and T. Matsui and F. Matsushima and Y. Michimura and O. Miyakawa and T. Miyamoto and A. Miyamoto and K. Miyo and S. Miyoki and W. Morii and S. Morisaki and Y. Moriwaki and T. Morozumi and M. Musha and S. Nagano and K. Nagano and K. Nakamura and T. Nakamura and H. Nakano and M. Nakano and K. Nakao and T. Narikawa and L. Nguyen Quynh and W. -T. Ni and T. Ochi and J. Oh and S. Oh and M. Ohashi and N. Ohishi and M. Ohkawa and K. Okutomi and K. Oohara and F. E. Peña Alleano and I. Pinto and N. Sago and M. Saijo and Y. Saito and K. Sakai and Y. Sakai and Y. Sasaki and M. Sasaki and S. Sato and T. Sato and Y. Sekiguchi and N. Seto and M. Shibata and T. Shimoda and H. Shinkai and A. Shoda and K. Somiya and E. Son and A. Suemasa and T. Suzuki and T. Suzuki and H. Tagoshi and H. Takahashi and R. Takahashi and A. Takamori and H. Takeda and H. Tanaka and K. Tanaka and T. Tanaka and D. Tatsumi and T. Tomaru and T. Tomura and F. Travasso and K. Tsubono and S. Tsuchida and N. Uchikata and T. Uchiyama and T. Uehara and S. Ueki and K. Ueno and T. Ushiba and M. H. P. M. van Putten and H. Vocca and S. Wada and T. Wakamatsu and T. Yamada and S. Yamamoto and T. Yamamoto and K. Yamamoto and A. Yamamoto and J. Yokoyama and T. Yokozawa and T. H. Yoon and H. Yuzurihara and S. Zeidler and Z. -H. Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.04823},
year = {2020}
}
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7 pages, 2 figures. Proceedings for XV International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2017), Sudbury, July 24-28, 2017