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Photon-pressure-induced test mass deformation in gravitational-wave detectors

S Hild et al 2007 Class. Quantum Grav. 24 5681-5688   doi: 10.1088/0264-9381/24/22/025  Help

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S Hild1, M Brinkmann1, K Danzmann1, H Grote1, M Hewitson1, J Hough1, H Lück1, I Martin2, K Mossavi1, N Rainer1, S Reid2, J R Smith3, K Strain2, M Weinert1, P Willems4, B Willke1 and W Winkler1
1 Max-Planck-Institut für Gravitationsphysik (Albert-Einstein-Institut) and Leibniz Universität Hannover, Callinstr 38, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
2 SUPA, Physics & Astronomy, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ, UK
3 Syracuse University, Department of Physics, 201 Physics Building, Syracuse, New York 13244-1130, USA
4 The LIGO project, California Institute for Technology, Mail Stop 18-34, Pasadena, California 91125, USA
E-mail: stefan.hild@aei.mpg.de

Abstract. A widely used assumption within the gravitational-wave community has so far been that a test mass acts like a rigid body for frequencies in the detection band, i.e. for frequencies far below the first internal resonance. In this paper, we demonstrate that localized forces, applied for example by a photon pressure actuator, can result in a non-negligible elastic deformation of the test masses. For a photon pressure actuator setup used in the gravitational-wave detector GEO 600, we measured that this effect modifies the standard response function by 10% at 1 kHz and about 100% at 2.5 kHz.

PACS numbers: 04.80.Nn, 95.75.Kk

Print publication: Issue 22 (21 November 2007)
Received 9 August 2007, in final form 28 September 2007
Published 6 November 2007

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