The present status of the VIRGO Central Interferometer*The present status of the VIRGO Central Interferometer
Abstract
The VIRGO Central Interferometer (CITF) is a short suspended interferometer operated with the central area elements of the VIRGO detector. The main motivation behind the CITF is to allow the integration and debugging of a large part of the subsystems of VIRGO while the construction of the long arms of the antenna is being completed. This will permit a faster commissioning of the full-size antenna. In fact, almost all the main components of the CITF, with the exception of the large mirrors and a few other details, are the same as those to be used for the full-size detector. In this paper the present status of the VIRGO CITF is reported.
- Publication:
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Classical and Quantum Gravity
- Pub Date:
- April 2002
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0264-9381/19/7/325
- Bibcode:
- 2002CQGra..19.1421A