Noise from scattered light in Virgo’s second science run data
2010
Virgo is one of the large, ground-based interferometers aimed at detecting
gravitational waves. One of the technical problems limiting its sensitivity is caused by light in the output beams which is backscattered by seismically excited surfaces and couples back into the main beam of the interferometer. The resulting noise was thoroughly studied, measured and mitigated before Virgo's second science run (VSR2). The residual noise during VSR2, which increases in periods with a large
microseismactivity, is accurately predicted by the theoretical model. The scattered light has been associated with transient events in the
gravitational-wavesignal of the interferometer.
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