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The present status of the VIRGO Central Interferometer*

2002; IOP Publishing; Volume: 19; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1088/0264-9381/19/7/325

1361-6382

F. Acernese, P Amico, N. Arnaud, C. Arnault, D. Babusci, G. Ballardin, F. Barone, M. Barsuglia, F. Bellachia, J.L. Béney, R. Bilhaut, M. A. Bizouard, Claude Boccara, D. Boget, F. Bondu, C. Bourgoin, A. Bozzi, L. Bracci, S. Braccini, C. Bradaschia, A. Brillet, V. Brisson, D. Buskulic, J. Cachenaut, G. Calamai, E. Calloni, Philippe Canitrot, Bernard Caron, C. Casciano, Ciro Cattuto, F. Cavalier, Sergio Cavaliere, R. Cavalieri, R. Cecchi, G. Cella, R. Chiche, F. Chollet, F. Cleva, Thomas Cokelaer, S. Cortese, J.‐P. Coulon, E. Cuoco, S. Cuzon, V. Dattilo, P Y David, M. Davier, M. De Rosa, R. De Rosa, M. Dehamme, L. Di Fiore, A. Di Virgilio, P. Dominici, D. Dufournaud, C. Eder, Antonio Eleuteri, D. Enard, Angela Errico, Gianpaolo Evangelista, L. Fabbroni, Hua Fang, I. Ferrante, F. Fidecaro, R. Flaminio, J.-D. Fournier, L. Fournier, S. Frasca, F. Frasconi, L. Gammaitoni, P. Ganau, F. Garufi, M. Gaspard, G. Di Gennaro, L Giacobone, A. Giazotto, G. Giordano, C. Girard, G. M. Guidi, H. Heitmann, P. Hello, R. Hermel, P Heusse, L. Holloway, M. Iannarelli, J.M. Innocent, E. Jules, P. La Penna, J.C. Lacotte, B. Lagrange, M. Leliboux, B. Lieunard, O. Lodygenski, Teimuraz Lomtadze, V. Loriette, G. Losurdo, Magali Loupias, J.‐M. Mackowski, E. Majorana, C N Man, B. Mansoux, F. Marchesoni, Pierre Marin, F. Marion, Jean-Claude Marrucho, F. Martelli, A. Masserot, L. Massonnet, S Mataguez, M. Mazzoni, M. Mencik, C. Michel, L. Milano, J.-L. Montorio, N. Morgado, B. Mours, P. Mugnier, L. Nicolosi, José Antonio Freitas Pacheco, C. Palomba, F. Paoletti, A. Paoli, A. Pasqualetti, R. Passaquieti, D. Passuello, M. Perciballi, L. Pinard, R. Poggiani, P. Popolizio, T. Pradier, M. Punturo, P. Puppo, K Qipiani, J Ramonet, P. Rapagnani, A. Reboux, T. Regimbau, V Reita, A Remillieux, F. Ricci, F Richard, Maurizio Ripepe, P. Rivoirard, J.P. Roger, J. P. Scheidecker, S. Solimeno, R. Sottile, R. Stanga, R. Taddei, M. Taurigna, J M Teuler, P. Tourrenc, H. Trinquet, E Turri, M. Varvella, D. Verkindt, F. Vetrano, O Véziant, A. Viceré, J.-Y. Vinet, H. Vocca, M. Yvert, Z. Zhang,

Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation

The VIRGO Central Interferometer (CITF) is a short suspended interferometer operated with the central area elements of the VIRGO detector. The main motivation behind the CITF is to allow the integration and debugging of a large part of the subsystems of VIRGO while the construction of the long arms of the antenna is being completed. This will permit a faster commissioning of the full-size antenna. In fact, almost all the main components of the CITF, with the exception of the large mirrors and a few other details, are the same as those to be used for the full-size detector. In this paper the present status of the VIRGO CITF is reported.