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Technologies for the European Einstein Telescope

1 August 2009

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This review articel is in German and deals with up-to-date technology for gravitational-wave detectors such as  LIGO,  GEO600, and Virgo. Back in 2009, gravitational-waves were not observed yet. This happend for the first time in 2015 by the two LIGO detectors. The article, however, focusses on technologies for next generation observatories, the Einstein Telescope and the space-based observatory LISA.

The article can be found here: R. Schnabel, G. Heinzel, H. Lück, B. Willke, K.  Danzmann, Wellen aus dem Rauschen fischen, Physik Journal 10, 33 (2009).

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