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Cryogenic Mechanical Loss of GaAs/AlGaAs Crystalline Coatings
Nicholas A. Didio, Steven D. Penn, Satoshi Tanioka +3
Optical coatings with minimal thermal noise are essential for high-precision, laser-based metrology experiments. Substrate-transferred crystalline GaAs/AlGaAs coa…
In situ substrate birefringence characterization in gravitational wave detectors using a heterodyne polarimetry method
Satoshi Tanioka, Terri Pearce, Yuta Michimura +6
High-quality test mass substrates play essential roles in laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors. Inhomogeneous birefringence distribution in test mass substrates, howe…
Birefringence of AlGaAs/GaAs Coatings under Above-Band-Gap Illumination, GR Noise and Photo-Optic Transfer Function
Bin Wu, Shreyan Goswami, Satoshi Tanioka +1
AlGaAs/GaAs coatings are being considered as coating candidates for gravitational-wave detectors. In this paper we investigate the birefringence properties of this crystalline semi…
Development of a polarimetry method toward in-situ substrate birefringence characterization of ground-based gravitational wave detectors
Satoshi Tanioka, Terri Pearce, Keiko Kokeyama
Improving the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors is necessary to enrich scientific outcome of gravitational wave astronomy. Birefringence in test mass mirrors of gravitati…
Experimental demonstration of frequency downconverted arm length stabilization for a future upgraded gravitational wave detector
Satoshi Tanioka, Bin Wu, Stefan W. Ballmer
Ground-based laser interferometric gravitational wave detectors consist of complex multiple optical cavity systems. An arm-length stabilization (ALS) system has played an important…
Substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs crystalline coatings for gravitational-wave detectors: A review of the state of the art
G. D. Cole, S. Ballmer, G. Billingsley +16
In this Perspective we summarize the status of technological development for large-area and low-noise substrate-transferred GaAs/AlGaAs (AlGaAs) crystalline coatings for interferom…
Study on electro-optic noise in crystalline coatings toward future gravitational wave detectors
Satoshi Tanioka, Daniel Vander-Hyde, Garrett D. Cole +2
Thermal noise in high-reflectivity mirror coatings is a limiting factor in ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Reducing this coating thermal noise improves the sensitivity o…
Input optics systems of the KAGRA detector during O3GK
T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +246
KAGRA, the underground and cryogenic gravitational-wave detector, was operated for its solo observation from February 25th to March 10th, 2020, and its first joint observation with…
Performance of the KAGRA detector during the first joint observation with GEO 600 (O3GK)
KAGRA Collaboration, H. Abe, R. X. Adhikari +212
KAGRA, the kilometer-scale underground gravitational-wave detector, is located at Kamioka, Japan. In April 2020, an astrophysics observation was performed at the KAGRA detector in…
Overview of KAGRA : KAGRA science
KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +240
KAGRA is a newly build gravitational-wave observatory, a laser interferometer with 3 km arm length, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. In this paper in the series of KAGRA-featured a…
Prospects for improving the sensitivity of the cryogenic gravitational wave detector KAGRA
Yuta Michimura, Kentaro Komori, Yutaro Enomoto +18
Upgrades to improve the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors enable more frequent detections and more precise source parameter estimation. Unlike other advanced interferomet…
The optical loss study of molecular layer for a cryogenic interferometric gravitational-wave detector
Satoshi Tanioka, Kunihiko Hasegawa, Yoichi Aso
The detection of gravitational-waves provides us with a deep insight into the universe. In order to increase the number of detectable gravitational-wave sources, several future gra…
Angular response of a triangular optical cavity analyzed by a linear approximation method
Satoshi Tanioka, Gui-guo Ge, Keiko Kokeyama +3
A triangular optical cavity is often used as a mode cleaning cavity in precision laser interferometry such as gravitational wave detectors. An alignment sensing and control system…
An arm length stabilization system for KAGRA and future gravitational-wave detectors
T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +198
Modern ground-based gravitational wave (GW) detectors require a complex interferometer configuration with multiple coupled optical cavities. Since achieving the resonances of the a…
Application of the independent component analysis to the iKAGRA data
KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +244
We apply the independent component analysis (ICA) to the real data from a gravitational wave detector for the first time. Specifically we use the iKAGRA data taken in April 2016, a…
Prospects for improving the sensitivity of KAGRA gravitational wave detector
Yuta Michimura, Masaki Ando, Eleonora Capocasa +22
KAGRA is a new gravitational wave detector which aims to begin joint observation with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo from late 2019. Here, we present KAGRA's possible upgrade pla…
First cryogenic test operation of underground km-scale gravitational-wave observatory KAGRA
KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +198
KAGRA is a second-generation interferometric gravitational-wave detector with 3-km arms constructed at Kamioka, Gifu in Japan. It is now in its final installation phase, which we c…
Vibration isolation system with a compact damping system for power recycling mirrors of KAGRA
Y. Akiyama, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +169
A vibration isolation system called Type-Bp system used for power recycling mirrors has been developed for KAGRA, the interferometric gravitational-wave observatory in Japan. A sus…
KAGRA: 2.5 Generation Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detector
T. Akutsu, M. Ando, K. Arai +188
The recent detections of gravitational waves (GWs) reported by LIGO/Virgo collaborations have made significant impact on physics and astronomy. A global network of GW detectors wil…
New classical Cepheids in the inner part of the northern Galactic disk and their kinematics
Satoshi Tanioka, Noriyuki Matsunaga, Kei Fukue +3
The characteristics of the inner Galaxy remain obscured by significant dust extinction, and hence infrared surveys are useful to find young Cepheids whose distances and ages can be…