NIOBE

Gravitational-wave detector

NIOBE on display at the Gravity Discovery Centre

Niobe was a ground-based, cryogenic resonant bar gravitational-wave detector. The detector used a microwave parametric transducer readout to improve noise performance and detector bandwidth.[1] The detector was run by David Blair at University of Western Australia in Perth. The detector ran in joint science runs from 1993-1998 with the gravitational-wave detectors Auriga, Allegro, Explorer and Nautillus.[1]

See also

  • Gravitational-wave astronomy

References

  1. ^ a b Aguiar, Odylio Denys (December 2010). "Past, present and future of the Resonant-Mass gravitational wave detectors". Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 11 (1): 1–42. arXiv:1009.1138. doi:10.1088/1674-4527/11/1/001. ISSN 1674-4527. S2CID 250693208.
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