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Search for Gravitational Waves with Resonant Detectors

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General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler

Part of the book series: Astrophysics and Space Science Library ((ASSL,volume 367))

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The search for Gravitational Waves began more than 40 years ago by initiative of Joe Weber. Since then two types of instrumentation have been developed: the large interferometers and the resonant detectors. In this review paper we deal with the resonant detectors: ALLEGRO, AURIGA, EXPLORER, NAUTILUS and NIOBE. These detectors established upper limits for gravitational wave bursts. Since 1998 up to 2004 coincident events were searched for between EXPLORER and NAUTILUS. Excess coincidences are found when the detectors are favorably oriented with respect to the Galactic Disk.

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Notes

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    Still today a few scientists believe that GW are just ripples in the space–time of mathematics. Einstein himself, in collaboration with N. Rosen, for a while doubted about the physical existence of GW (see Ref. [6]).

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    Although this algorithm was already known [23].

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    Already several years ago Joe Weber pointed out this feature of an oscillator with a very low noise amplifier.

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    In the conclusions of the 1998 paper that was presented to the IGEC collaboration in 1999 and 2000:…we find an excess of coincidences at zero time delay in the direction of the galactic centre.

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Acknowledgements

I am indebted with the collaborators of the ROG group, who, in many years of hard work, have brought a significant contribution to the production of the experimental data and to their interpretation. I am also indebted with William Hamilton and David Blair for useful discussions.

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  1. Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma “Tor Vergata” INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy

    Guido Pizzella

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    Ignazio Ciufolini

  2. Dept. Physics, Center for Relativity, University of Texas, Austin, Austin, 78712-1081, USA

    Richard A. Matzner

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Pizzella, G. (2010). Search for Gravitational Waves with Resonant Detectors. In: Ciufolini, I., Matzner, R. (eds) General Relativity and John Archibald Wheeler. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 367. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3735-0_12

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