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Science 10 July 1987:
Vol. 237. no. 4811, pp. 150 - 157
DOI: 10.1126/science.237.4811.150
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Resonant-Mass Detectors of Gravitational Radiation

PETER F. MICHELSON 1, JOHN C. PRICE 1, and ROBERT C. TABER 1

1 Department of Physics and the High Energy Physics Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305.

A network of second-generation low-temperature gravitational radiation detectors is nearing completion. These detectors, sensitive to mechanical strains of order 10-18, are possible because of a variety of technical innovations hat have been made in cryogenics, low-noise superconducting instrumentation, and vibration isolation techniques. Another five orders of magnitude improvement in energy sensitivity of resonant-mass detectors is possible before the linear amplifier quantum limit is encountered.


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