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The actuators for the HEPI system were chosen as they √ have a bandwidth of 20 Hz, and between 0 − 10 Hz they operate with a noise of 10−10 m/ Hz [50], this then provides suitable isolation in this frequency range. 12, which is an active isolation platform located outside of the vacuum chamber. The power of the laser in each section is also labelled and can been seen to increase through each section [41]. This shows that the gravitational radiation takes energy away from the source in the form of 5 a wave, distorting space time as it travels. Each of the arms of the interferometer are Fabry-Peirot cavities and are characterised by a parameter called finesse, LIGO operates at a finesse of 450 [41]. Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are collections of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) that are evenly distributed across the sky, and are monitored by an array of single dish radio telescopes [33]. This allows a correlation between the gravitational wave frequency and the rotational frequency of the pulsar to be determined; the gravitational frequency is thought to be twice the rotation frequency [1]. 15, these are made from maraging steel and provide vertical isolation to the test 24 Vacuum chamber Instruments and springs support structure Springs Payload attachment point Support Feedback instruments (Geophones and relative sensors) Tubes Ground Instrument Ground Cross Beam Bellows Quiet hydraulic actuators Figure 12: This diagram shows the layout for the HEPI system, which consists of seismometers, geophones and springs which are all labelled [51] mass [53]. 3 cm (for the input and end mirrors respectively) to 6 cm for both mirrors [43], this means that the thermo-refractive fluctuations are reduced. This is because the gravitational radiation follows the inverse square law, therefore weaker signals from more distant sources would be detectable. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration) Search for Gravitational Waves from Low Mass Binary Coalescences in the First Year of LIGOs S5 Data Phys. This means that they have regular pulse trains, i. The data is initially collected from the network of radio telescopes outlined above, the data is then analysed by following a ’pipeline’, where a series of processes is applied to the data to improve the signal to noise ratio (SNR), for more detail on the analysis see Ref. Although the BBO operates over a smaller distance than LISA, it is planned to have 4 separate triangular interferometers which will orbit the sun [57], it is also designed to operate over a frequency band that spans parts of both LIGO and LISAs spectrum as Fig. There are a few different models which aim to predict the coalescence rate of compact binaries, in the simplest models they are thought to be proportional to the rate of star birth within the galaxy [19]. The BSC system used for the core optics has another stage which is supported by stage 1, shown in Fig. The asymmetrically infalling matter from the disk to the BH perturbs the BHs geometry, this causes a ring down phase of the GW emission. Relativistic Binary Pulsar B1913+16: Thirty Years of Observations and Analysis ASP Conf. This binary orbit was studied for 30 years and the radius of its orbit was found to decrease with time, this means the system must be losing energy and can be accounted for somewhere. Rowan and B S Sathyaprakash The search for gravitational waves Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Volume 38, Number 9 (2005) arXiv:gr-qc/0501007v1 [13] Jolien D