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Detecting Gravitational Waves by Laser Interferometers

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Data Analysis in Astronomy III

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This paper describes detection of gravitational waves by laser interferometers. These are one of the two main types of proposed earth-based detectors of gravitational waves. The other type — bar detector, is described in papers by Pizzella and Pallotino in this volume.

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  1. Department of Applied Mathematics and Astronomy, University College Cardiff, Cardiff, CF1 lXL, Wales, UK

    A. Krolak

  2. Institute of Mathematics, Polish Academic of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    A. Krolak

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  1. University of Palermo and Institute of Cosmic Physics and Informatics/CNR, Palermo, Italy

    V. Di Gesù , L. Scarsi  & M. C. Maccarone ,  & 

  2. European Southern Observatory, Garching/Munich, Federal Republic of Germany

    P. Crane

  3. Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA

    J. H. Friedman

  4. University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    S. Levialdi

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Krolak, A. (1989). Detecting Gravitational Waves by Laser Interferometers. In: Di Gesù, V., Scarsi, L., Crane, P., Friedman, J.H., Levialdi, S., Maccarone, M.C. (eds) Data Analysis in Astronomy III. Ettore Majorana International Science Series, vol 40. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-5646-2_36

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