Interferometer design of the KAGRA gravitational wave detector

By Y. Aso, Y. Michimura, K. Somiya, M. Ando, O. Miyakawa, T. Sekiguchi, D. Tatsumi, Hiroaki Yamamoto. 2013

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KAGRA is a cryogenic interferometric gravitational-wave detector being constructed at the underground site of Kamioka mine in Gifu prefecture, Japan. We performed an optimization of the interferomter design, to achieve the best sensitivity and a stable operation, with boundary conditions of classical noises and under various practical constraints, such as the size of the tunnel or the mirror cooling capacity. Length and alignment sensing schemes for the robust control of the interferometer are developed. In this paper, we describe the detailed design of the KAGRA interferometer as well as the reasoning behind design choices.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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A Review of Gravitational Waves from Cosmic Domain Walls (2017, background): “In addition to them, ground-based interferometer KAGRA [126] will soon start to run in Japan.”
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Neutron Star Extreme Matter Observatory: A kilohertz-band gravitational-wave detector in the global network (2020, methodology): “For this reason, we choose a dual-recycled Michelson interferometer design with Fabry–Perot arm cavities, similar to current interferometric gravitational-wave detectors (Aasi et al. 2015; Acernese et al. 2015; Aso et al. 2013).”
Dynamical Mass Ejection from Binary Neutron Star Mergers (2016, background): “BNS mergers are promising sources for groundbased laser-interferometer detectors such as Advanced LIGO (LIGO Scientific Collaboration et al. 2015), Advanced Virgo (Acernese et al. 2015), and KAGRA (Aso et al. 2013).”
Characterizing the Gravitational Wave Signal from Core-collapse Supernovae (2018, neutral): “…(GWs) for ground-based detectors (Wheeler 1966; Finn & Evans 1990; Ott 2009; Kotake 2013) such as the AdvancedLaser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO; Aasi et al. 2015), AdvancedVirgo (Acernese et al. 2015), and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave Detector (KAGRA; Aso et al. 2013).”
Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA (2013, methodology): “For CBC searches, this involves matching a bank of waveform templates (Sathyaprakash and Dhurandhar 1991; Owen 1996; Owen and Sathyaprakash 1999; Babak et al. 2006; Cokelaer 2007; Prix 2007; Harry et al. 2009; Ajith et al. 2014; Brown et al. 2012; Capano et al. 2016; Dal Canton and Harry 2017) to…”
Approximate Universal Relations for Neutron Stars and Quark Stars (2016, neutral): “The LIGO [99–101], Virgo [102, 103] GEO [104], KAGRA [105, 106] and LIGO-India [107] detectors aim to detect many more gravitational wave signals, such as those produced in the late inspiral and merger of compact star binaries.”