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gr-qc2020★ 9 cited

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…

gr-qc2018★ 535 cited

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…

gr-qc2017★ 86 cited

Construction of KAGRA: an Underground Gravitational Wave Observatory

T. Akutsu, M. Ando, S. Araki +222

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 m…

gr-qc2017★ 53 cited

The status of KAGRA underground cryogenic gravitational wave telescope

KAGRA Collaboration, T. Akutsu, M. Ando +146

KAGRA is a 3-km interferometric gravitational wave telescope located in the Kamioka mine in Japan. It is the first km-class gravitational wave telescope constructed underground to…

gr-qc2012★ 42 cited

Reduction of thermal fluctuations in a cryogenic laser interferometric gravitational wave detector

Takashi Uchiyama, Shinji Miyoki, Souichi Telada +14

The thermal fluctuation of mirror surfaces is the fundamental limitation for interferometric gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Here, we experimentally demonstrate for the first ti…

gr-qc2010★ 8 cited

The bounce hardness index of gravitational waves

Fumihiko Ishiyama, Ryutaro Takahashi

We present a method of mode analysis to search for signals with frequency evolution and limited duration in a given data stream. Our method is a natural expansion of the Fourier an…

gr-qc2009★ 18 cited

Thermal-noise-limited underground interferometer CLIO

Kazuhiro Agatsuma, Koji Arai, Masa-Katsu Fujimoto +12

We report on the current status of CLIO (Cryogenic Laser Interferometer Observatory), which is a prototype interferometer for LCGT (Large Scale Cryogenic Gravitational-Wave Telesco…

gr-qc2007★ 21 cited

Current status of Japanese detectors

Daisuke Tatsumi, Ryutaro Takahashi, Koji Arai +29

Current status of TAMA and CLIO detectors in Japan is reported in this article. These two interferometric gravitational-wave detectors are being developed for the large cryogenic g…

gr-qc2004★ 7 cited

Plans for the LIGO-TAMA Joint Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts

Patrick J. Sutton, Masaki Ando, Patrick Brady +18

We describe the plans for a joint search for unmodelled gravitational wave bursts being carried out by the LIGO and TAMA collaborations using data collected during February-April 2…

gr-qc2004★ 30 cited

Observation results by the TAMA300 detector on gravitational wave bursts from stellar-core collapses

Masaki Ando, Koji Arai, Youichi Aso +19

We present data-analysis schemes and results of observations with the TAMA300 gravitational-wave detector, targeting burst signals from stellar-core collapse events. In analyses fo…