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Worldwide activities in laser-interferometric detection of gravitational waves, so far concerned with building ever more sensitive prototypes, are beginning to bear fruit: several large ground-based interferometers have received funding, and some of them are already under construction. The sensitivities achieved with prototypes so far, and the features of the large interferometer projects, in particular the German-British GEO 600 project, will be presented. The regime of extremely low frequencies is not accessible with ground-based detectors and can be covered only with space-borne detectors. The project LISA, selected by ESA as one of the cornerstone space projects under the program Horizon 2000+, will deploy six spacecraft in Earth-like orbits, forming up to three interferometers with arm lengths of 5 million km. Launch is expected around the year 2015.
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Danzmann, K. (1998). Laser-Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors — on the Ground and in Deep Space. In: Riffert, H., Ruder, H., Nollert, HP., Hehl, F.W. (eds) Relativistic Astrophysics. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11294-5_4
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