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Schlagwörter:
Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, astro-ph.IM, Physics, Optics, physics.optics
Zusammenfassung:
Parametric instabilities have long been studied as a potentially limiting
effect in high-power interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Until now,
however, these instabilities have never been observed in a kilometer-scale
interferometer. In this work we describe the first observation of parametric
instability in an Advanced LIGO detector, and the means by which it has been
removed as a barrier to progress.