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== Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory ==
== STACIS seismic isolation at LIGO's 40 meter prototype Laboratory ==
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* TMC [[[http://www.techmfg.com/Products/Advanced/STACIS2000.htm|STACIS|2000]]] web site and [[[http://www.techmfg.com/TechBkgd.pdf|Technical|Background (pdf)]]]<
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* Between 11/27-12/6/00, Stave Vass and Larry Jones mounted the STACIS seismic isolation systems on the four 40m test mass chambers.<
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* Preliminary results, in [[[http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~ajw/stacis.ps|Postscript]]] and [[[http://www.ligo.caltech.edu/~ajw/stacis.pdf|pdf]]].
* We are limited by our ability to measure motion below a few Hz and above some 10's of Hz, by our geophones. More about geophones: [[[http://www.treefort.org/~ghost/geo.shtml||GEOPHONE FAQ[[|, [[http://micromachine.stanford.edu/smssl/projects/Geophones/|Geophone research at Stanford]]], [[[http://www.i-o.com/htmlweb/framesetland.htm|Geophones|from i-o.com]]].
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> Questions? Contact [[[mailto:ajw@ligo.caltech.edu|Alan|Weinstein]]]. ]]]]