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Calibration of the ALLEGRO resonant detector

Martin P McHugh et al 2005 Class. Quantum Grav. 22 S965-S973   doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/22/18/S10  Help

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Martin P McHugh1, Warren W Johnson2, William O Hamilton2, Jonathan Hanson2, Ik Siong Heng3, Daniel McNeese1, Phillip Miller2, Damon Nettles2, Jordan Weaver2 and Ping Zhang2
1 Department of Physics, Loyola University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA
3 University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
E-mail: mmchugh@loyno.edu

Abstract. We describe a method for calibrating the ALLEGRO resonant detector. The resulting response function can be used to transform the observed data backwards to gravitational strain data. These data are the input to a cross-correlation analysis to search for stochastic gravitational waves.

PACS numbers: 04.80.Nn, 95.85.Sz

Print publication: Issue 18 (21 September 2005)
Received 8 April 2005, in final form 9 June 2005
Published 23 August 2005

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