Results of the Munich-Frascati gravitational-wave experiment

Billing, H.; Kafka, P.; Maischberger, K.; Meyer, F.; Winkler, W.

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“…However other experiments -at Moscow State University [12], Yorktown heights [13], Rochester [14], Bell Labs [15], Munich [16] and Glasgow [17] -failed to confirm Weber's detections. The detector at the Max-Planck-Institut fuer Physik und Astrophysik in Munich is shown in Fig 3(a).…”

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confidence: 96%

The search for gravitational waves

Rowan

Sathyaprakash

2005

J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.

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Experiments aimed at searching for gravitational waves from astrophysical sources have been under development for the last 40 years, but only now are sensitivities reaching the level where there is a real possibility of detections being made within the next five years. In this article a history of detector development will be followed by a description of current detectors such as LIGO, VIRGO, GEO 600, TAMA 300, Nautilus and Auriga. Preliminary results from these detectors will be discussed and related to predicted detection rates for some types of sources. Experimental challenges for detector design are introduced and discussed in the context of detector developments for the future.2

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Section: Historymentioning

confidence: 96%

The search for gravitational waves

Rowan

Sathyaprakash

2005

J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys.

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“…He continued to publish in the Italian-edited physics journal II Nuovo Cimento, but this journal had changed its status during these years. In the early period, the journal seemed to be just one of the places in which reports and discussions of "run-of-the-mill" gravitational wave results appeared (e.g., Bertotti and Cavaliere 1972;Billing et al 1975;Bramanti and Maischberger 1972;Bramanti, Maischberger, and Parkinson 1973;Levine 1974). Nowadays, however, members of the gravitational wave core-group do not publish in II Nuovo Cimento and they no longer seem to read it, although it remains, unmistakably, a physics journal (Collins 1998(Collins , 1999.10 The second two of the key publications that I described above were published in II Nuovo Cimento, but the bulk of Weber's publications on gravitational radiation after 1975 are found in conference proceedings and, increasingly, in edited collections.…”

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Surviving Closure: Post-Rejection Adaptation and Plurality in Science

Collins¹

2000

American Sociological Review

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org.. American Sociological Association is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to American Sociological Review.Can the procedures and institutions of modern science support more than one version of reality? The early science of gravitational wave detection adapted and survived for a quarter of a century after its findings ceased to be accepted by the majority of the scientific community. Two mutually exclusive approaches to the same physical phenomenon, spawned by the same community, were initially supported by the same institutions and later by only marginally different institutions. The case reveals, then, a surprising plurality within physics, that stretches from publication policies to funding sources. The survival history of what will be called "high visibility gravitational radiation" (HighVGR) research is compared with that of other "rejected sciences" that experienced what might be called "life after death. " It is suggested that "core-groups" in physics allow a large degree of license within the formal institutions because their informal controls make sure that rejected science does no harm to progress in the mainstream. When informal controls break down, however, formal controls take over. Analysis of the formal, readily visible face of science reveals little of what is happening in the, often crucial, informal networks.A core-set of scientists is composed of those scientists who are deeply involved in experimentation or theorization that is directly relevant to a scientific controversy (Collins 1981a(Collins , [1985 1992). A core-set is often quite small-perhaps only a dozen scientists or a half-dozen laboratory teams. They are a "set" rather than a ''group" because the members may disagree so violently that there are few social ties among them.When a scientific controversy reaches closure, there are winners and losers. If new claims are rejected outright by the majority, the winners write their "told-you-so" books and papers and go back to their previous scientific lives; for them, there is a resumption of business as usual. As for the losers, they may disappear too, or they may form a "re-

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“…The first of the cryogenic detectors to come on-line (Boughn, Fairbank, Figgard, Hollenhorst, Maypoles, McAshan, Michelson, Paik and Taber 1982) has, operating alone, achieved a sensitivity two and a half orders of magnitude greater than that previously attained by a pair of detectors operating in coincidence (Billing, Kafka, Maischberger, Meyer and Winkler 1975). Were a second detector of similar sensitivity to be available for coincidence work this improvement factor would be closer to four orders of magnitude.…”

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Prospects for the Detection of Gravity Wave Bursts

Edwards

1982

Publ. Astron. Soc. Aust.

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Many excellent reviews of gravitational wave astronomy have appeared in the literature (see for example Thorne 1980 and references cited there). Much has also been written on the potential of the second generation of Weber-bar detectors which, operating at low temperatures and exploiting superconducting technology, have design sensitivities up to a million times greater than those of a decade ago. Indeed such has been the intensity of activity in this area, that even before this generation of cryogenic detectors has come of age, a third generation, quantum mechanical in outlook, is already being conceived.

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Results of the Munich-Frascati gravitational-wave experiment

Cited by 34 publications

References 7 publications

The search for gravitational waves

The search for gravitational waves

Surviving Closure: Post-Rejection Adaptation and Plurality in Science

Prospects for the Detection of Gravity Wave Bursts

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