Bibliographic Details
| Title: |
Construction of KAGRA: an Underground Gravitational Wave Observatory |
| Authors: |
Akutsu, T., Ando, M., Araki, S., Araya, A., Arima, T., Aritomi, N., Asada, H., Aso, Y., Atsuta, S., Awai, K., Baiotti, L., Barton, M. A., Chen, D., Cho, K., Craig, K., DeSalvo, R., Doi, K., Eda, K., Enomoto, Y., Flaminio, R., Fujibayashi, S., Fujii, Y., Fujimoto, M. -K., Fukushima, M., Furuhata, T., Hagiwara, A., Haino, S., Harita, S., Hasegawa, K., Hasegawa, M., Hashino, K., Hayama, K., Hirata, N., Hirose, E., Ikenoue, B., Inoue, Y., Ioka, K., Ishizaki, H., Itoh, Y., Jia, D., Kagawa, T., Kaji, T., Kajita, T., Kakizaki, M., Kakuhata, H., Kamiizumi, M., Kanbara, S., Kanda, N., Kanemura, S., Kaneyama, M., Kasuya, J., Kataoka, Y., Kawaguchi, K., Kawai, N., Kawamura, S., Kawazoe, F., Kim, C., Kim, J., Kim, J. C., Kim, W., Kimura, N., Kitaoka, Y., Kobayashi, K., Kojima, Y., Kokeyama, K., Komori, K., Kotake, K., Kubo, K., Kumar, R., Kume, T., Kuroda, K., Kuwahara, Y., Lee, H. -K., Lee, H. -W., Lin, C. -Y., Liu, Y., Majorana, E., Mano, S., Marchio, M., Matsui, T., Matsumoto, N., Matsushima, F., Michimura, Y., Mio, N., Miyakawa, O., Miyake, K., Miyamoto, A., Miyamoto, T., Miyo, K., Miyoki, S., Morii, W., Morisaki, S., Moriwaki, Y., Muraki, Y., Murakoshi, M., Musha, M., Nagano, K., Nagano, S., Nakamura, K., Nakamura, T., Nakano, H., Nakano, M., Nakao, H., Nakao, K., Narikawa, T., Ni, W. -T., Nonomura, T., Obuchi, Y., Oh, J. J., Oh, S. -H., Ohashi, M., Ohishi, N., Ohkawa, M., Ohmae, N., Okino, K., Okutomi, K., Ono, K., Ono, Y., Oohara, K., Ota, S., Park, J., Arellano, F. E. Peña, Pinto, I. M., Principe, M., Sago, N., Saijo, M., Saito, T., Saito, Y., Saitou, S., Sakai, K., Sakakibara, Y., Sasaki, Y., Sato, S., Sato, T., Sato, Y., Sekiguchi, T., Sekiguchi, Y., Shibata, M., Shiga, K., Shikano, Y., Shimoda, T., Shinkai, H., Shoda, A., Someya, N., Somiya, K., Son, E. J., Starecki, T., Suemasa, A., Sugimoto, Y., Susa, Y., Suwabe, H., Suzuki, T., Tachibana, Y., Tagoshi, H., Takada, S., Takahashi, H., Takahashi, R., Takamori, A., Takeda, H., Tanaka, H., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, T., Tatsumi, D., Telada, S., Tomaru, T., Tsubono, K., Tsuchida, S., Tsukada, L., Tsuzuki, T., Uchikata, N., Uchiyama, T., Uehara, T., Ueki, S., Ueno, K., Uraguchi, F., Ushiba, T., van Putten, M. H. P. M., Wada, S., Wakamatsu, T., Yaginuma, T., Yamamoto, K., Yamamoto, S., Yamamoto, T., Yano, K., Yokoyama, J., Yokozawa, T., Yoon, T. H., Yuzurihara, H., Zeidler, S., Zhao, Y., Zheng, L., Agatsuma, K., Akiyama, Y., Arai, N., Asano, M., Bertolini, A., Fujisawa, M., Goetz, R., Guscott, J., Hashimoto, Y., Hayashida, Y., Hennes, E., Hirai, K., Hirayama, T., Ishitsuka, H., Kato, J., Khalaidovski, A., Koike, S., Kumeta, A., Miener, T., Morioka, M., Mueller, C. L., Narita, T., Oda, Y., Ogawa, T., Tamura, H., Tanner, D. B., Tokoku, C., Toritani, M., Utsuki, T., Uyeshima, M., Brand, J. van den, van Heijningen, J., Yamaguchi, S., Yanagida, A. |
| Source: |
Progress of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Vol 2018, 1, 013F01 |
| Publication Year: |
2017 |
| Collection: |
Astrophysics
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology
Physics (Other) |
| Subject Terms: |
General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Physics - Instrumentation and Detectors |
| More Details: |
Major construction and initial-phase operation of a second-generation gravitational-wave detector KAGRA has been completed. The entire 3-km detector is installed underground in a mine in order to be isolated from background seismic vibrations on the surface. This allows us to achieve a good sensitivity at low frequencies and high stability of the detector. Bare-bones equipment for the interferometer operation has been installed and the first test run was accomplished in March and April of 2016 with a rather simple configuration. The initial configuration of KAGRA is named {\it iKAGRA}. In this paper, we summarize the construction of KAGRA, including the study of the advantages and challenges of building an underground detector and the operation of the iKAGRA interferometer together with the geophysics interferometer that has been constructed in the same tunnel.
Comment: Resolution of some figures has been decreased from its original version submitted to a journal |
| Document Type: |
Working Paper |
| DOI: |
10.1093/ptep/ptx180 |
| Access URL: |
http://arxiv.org/abs/1712.00148 |
| Accession Number: |
edsarx.1712.00148 |
| Database: |
arXiv |
