TY - JOUR
T1 - Design and implementation of a seismic Newtonian noise cancellation system for the Virgo gravitational-wave detector
AU - Koley, Soumen
AU - Harms, Jan
AU - Allocca, Annalisa
AU - Badaracco, Francesca
AU - Bertolini, Alessandro
AU - Bulik, Tomasz
AU - Calloni, Enrico
AU - Cieslar, Marek
AU - De Rosa, Rosario
AU - Errico, Luciano
AU - Esposito, Marina
AU - Fiori, Irene
AU - Hild, Stefan
AU - Idzkowski, Bartosz
AU - Masserot, Alain
AU - Mours, Benoit
AU - Paoletti, Federico
AU - Paoli, Andrea
AU - Pietrzak, Mateusz
AU - Rei, Luca
AU - Rolland, Loic
AU - Singha, Ayatri
AU - Suchenek, Mariusz
AU - Suchinski, Maciej
AU - Tringali, Maria Concetta
AU - Ruggi, Paolo
PY - 2024/1/13
Y1 - 2024/1/13
N2 - Terrestrial gravity perturbations caused by seismic fields produce the so-called Newtonian noise in gravitational-wave detectors, which is predicted to limit their sensitivity in the upcoming observing runs. In the past, this noise was seen as an infrastructural limitation, i.e., something that cannot be overcome without major investments to improve a detector's infrastructure. However, it is possible to have at least an indirect estimate of this noise by using the data from a large number of seismometers deployed around a detector's suspended test masses. The noise estimate can be subtracted from the gravitational-wave data, a process called Newtonian noise cancellation (NNC). In this article, we present the design and implementation of the first NNC system at the Virgo detector as part of its AdV+ upgrade. It uses data from 110 vertical geophones deployed inside the Virgo buildings in optimized array configurations. We use a separate tiltmeter channel to test the pipeline in a proof-of-principle. The system has been running with good performance over months.
AB - Terrestrial gravity perturbations caused by seismic fields produce the so-called Newtonian noise in gravitational-wave detectors, which is predicted to limit their sensitivity in the upcoming observing runs. In the past, this noise was seen as an infrastructural limitation, i.e., something that cannot be overcome without major investments to improve a detector's infrastructure. However, it is possible to have at least an indirect estimate of this noise by using the data from a large number of seismometers deployed around a detector's suspended test masses. The noise estimate can be subtracted from the gravitational-wave data, a process called Newtonian noise cancellation (NNC). In this article, we present the design and implementation of the first NNC system at the Virgo detector as part of its AdV+ upgrade. It uses data from 110 vertical geophones deployed inside the Virgo buildings in optimized array configurations. We use a separate tiltmeter channel to test the pipeline in a proof-of-principle. The system has been running with good performance over months.
KW - OPTIMIZATION
KW - IMPACT
U2 - 10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04834-0
DO - 10.1140/epjp/s13360-023-04834-0
M3 - Article
SN - 2190-5444
VL - 139
JO - European Physical Journal Plus
JF - European Physical Journal Plus
IS - 1
M1 - 48
ER -