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Status Report of the Schenberg Gravitational Wave Antenna

2012; IOP Publishing; Volume: 363; Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/1742-6596/363/1/012003

ISSN

1742-6596

Autores

Odylio D. Aguiar, Joaquim J. Barroso, N. C. Carvalho, Pedro J. Castro, C. E. Cedeño Montaña, C. F. Da Silva Costa, J. C. N. de Araújo, Edgard F. D. Evangelista, S R Furtado, Oswaldo D. Miranda, P. H. R. S. Moraes, Eduardo S. Pereira, PATRICK R. SILVEIRA, C Stellati, Naira Fernandes de Oliveira, X. Gratens, L. A. N. de Paula, S T de Souza, R. M. Marinho, F. G. Oliveira, Carlos Frajuca, F S Bortoli, Ricardo Pires, Dennis Bessada, Nadja S. Magalhães, M. E. S. Alves, A. C. Fauth, Rodrigo Panosso Macedo, Alberto Saa, DENIS B. TAVARES, Cláudio Soriano de Souza Brandão, L A Andrade, Guilherme Frederico Marranghello, Cecilia Chirenti, G. Frossati, A. de Waard, Michael E. Tobar, C. A. Costa, W. W. Johnson, J. A. de Freitas Pacheco, Guilherme L. Pimentel,

Tópico(s)

Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

Resumo

Here we present a status report of the Schenberg antenna. In the past three years it has gone to a radical upgrading operation, in which we have been installing a 1K pot dilution refrigerator, cabling and amplifiers for nine transducer circuits, designing a new suspension and vibration isolation system for the microstrip antennas, and developing a full set of new transducers, microstrip antennas, and oscillators. We are also studying an innovative approach, which could transform Schenberg into a broadband gravitational wave detector.

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