Global feed-forward vibration isolation in a km scale interferometer. DeRosa, R., Driggers, J. C., Atkinson, D., Miao, H., Frolov, V., Landry, M., Giaime, J. A., & Adhikari, R. X. Classical and Quantum Gravity, 29(21):Art. No. 215008, Institute of Physics, November, 2012. o̧pyright 2012 Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. Received 7 June 2012, in final form 28 August 2012. Published 1 October 2012. We are supported by NSF grant PHY-0905184. JCD also acknowledges the support of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. LIGO was constructed by the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with funding from the National Science Foundation and operates under cooperative agreement PHY- 0757058. This article has LIGO Document Number P1000088.
Global feed-forward vibration isolation in a km scale interferometer [link]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
Using a network of seismometers and sets of optimal filters, we implemented a feed-forward control technique to minimize the seismic contribution to multiple interferometric degrees of freedom of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory interferometers. The filters are constructed by using the Levinson?Durbin recursion relation to approximate the optimal Wiener filter. By reducing the RMS of the interferometer feedback signals below \textttḩar12610 Hz, we have improved the stability and duty cycle of the joint network of gravitational wave detectors. By suppressing the large control forces and mirror motions, we have dramatically reduced the rate of non-Gaussian transients in the gravitational wave signal stream.
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	Abstract = {Using a network of seismometers and sets of optimal filters, we implemented a feed-forward control technique to minimize the seismic contribution to multiple interferometric degrees of freedom of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory interferometers. The filters are constructed by using the Levinson?Durbin recursion relation to approximate the optimal Wiener filter. By reducing the RMS of the interferometer feedback signals below {\texttt{\char126}}10 Hz, we have improved the stability and duty cycle of the joint network of gravitational wave detectors. By suppressing the large control forces and mirror motions, we have dramatically reduced the rate of non-Gaussian transients in the gravitational wave signal stream.},
	Author = {Ryan DeRosa and Jennifer C. Driggers and Dani Atkinson and Haixing Miao and Valery Frolov and Michael Landry and Joseph A. Giaime and Rana X. Adhikari},
	Journal = {Classical and Quantum Gravity},
	Keywords = {Instrumentation and measurement; Gravitation and cosmology; Astrophysics and astroparticles},
	Month = {November},
	Note = {{\copyright} 2012 Institute of Physics Publishing Ltd. Received 7 June 2012, in final form 28 August 2012. Published 1 October 2012. We are supported by NSF grant PHY-0905184. JCD also acknowledges the support of an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. LIGO was constructed by the California Institute of Technology and Massachusetts Institute of Technology with funding from the National Science Foundation and operates under cooperative agreement PHY- 0757058. This article has LIGO Document Number P1000088.},
	Number = {21},
	Pages = {Art. No. 215008},
	Publisher = {Institute of Physics},
	Title = {Global feed-forward vibration isolation in a km scale interferometer},
	Url = {http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20121204-092111327},
	Volume = {29},
	Year = {2012},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20121204-092111327}}

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