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The Brazilian spherical detector: progress and plans

2004; IOP Publishing; Volume: 21; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/0264-9381/21/5/011

1361-6382

O. D. Aguiar, L A Andrade, Joaquim J. Barroso, Luiz C. Gonçalves Filho, L A Carneiro, C. S. CASTRO, Pedro J. Castro, C. A. Costa, Karen Costa, J. C. N. de Araújo, Angel Lucena, W. de Paula, E C de Rey Neto, S T de Souza, A. C. Fauth, Carlos Frajuca, G. Frossati, S R Furtado, Lidiane Costa Lima, Nadja S. Magalhães, R. M. Marinho, E S Matos, J L Melo, Oswaldo D. Miranda, N.F. Oliveira, Bruno Woltzenlogel Paleo, M. Rémy, K L Ribeiro, C Stellati, W. Velloso, J. Weber,

Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology

We are building the Schenberg gravitational wave detector at the Physics Institute of the University of Sao Paulo as programmed by the Brazilian Graviton Project. The antenna and its vibration isolation system are already built, and we have made a first cryogenic run for an overall test, in which we measured the antenna mechanical Q (figure of merit). We also have built a 10.21 GHz oscillator with phase noise performance better than -120 dBc at 3.2 kHz to pump an initial CuA16% two-mode transducer. We plan to prepare this spherical antenna for a first operational run at 4.2 K with a single transducer and an initial target sensitivity of h ∼ 2 x 10 -21 Hz -1/2 in a 50 Hz bandwidth around 3.2 kHz soon. Here we present details of this plan and some recent results of the development of this project.