The Brazilian gravitational wave detector Mario Schenberg: Status report

Aguiar, O.D.; Andrade, L.A.; Barroso, J.J.; Bortoli, F.; Carneiro, L.A.; Castro, P.J.; Costa, C.A.; Costa, K.M.F.; de Araujo, J.C.; de Lucena, A.U.

doi:10.1088/0264-9381/23/8/S30

The Brazilian gravitational wave detector Mario Schenberg: Status report

2006

Part of Gravitational waves. Proceedings, 6th Edoardo Amaldi Conference, Amaldi6, Bankoku Shinryoukan, June 20-24, 2005

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Class.Quant.Grav. 23 (2006) S239-S244

Contribution to:

6th Edoardo Amaldi Conference on Gravitational Waves (Amaldi6)

DOI:

10.1088/0264-9381/23/8/S30

Experiments:

Mario-Schenberg

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The Mario Schenberg gravitational wave detector has been constructed at its site in the Physics Institute of the University of São Paulo as programmed by the Brazilian Graviton Project, under the full support of FAPESP (the São Paulo State Foundation for Research Support). We are preparing it for a first commissioning run of the spherical antenna at 4.2 K with three parametric transducers and an initial target sensitivity ofh~ 2×10−21Hz−1/2in a 60 Hz bandwidth around 3.2 kHz. Here we present the status of this project.

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