AURIGA

AN ULTRACRYOGENIC GRAVITATIONAL WAVES DETECTOR
(
  • Started: 1997,
  • Completed: 9999
)
AURIGA Collaboration
The AURIGA project aims at detecting gravitational waves impinging on the Earth from the Universe. The detector is based on a very low losses ultracryogenic mechanical oscillator: when a burst of gravitational waves hits and excites the oscillator, this will vibrate for a time span much longer than the duration of the burst (typically 1msec), thus allowing the extraction of the signal from the detector noise. Run 1 1997-1999. Run 2 2003-current
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