Requesting Access to Hanford 2-km Arm Engineering Data Run of April 3-4, 2000

A (roughly) 24-hour engineering data run was carried out April 3-4, 2000 using a single arm of the LHO 2-km interferometer. This data should be quite useful in detector characterization studies, both in understanding the single arm's behavior and in exercising algorithms now under development.

A web page has been set up at Hanford to serve as a repository of information concerning this data. Accessing this page from outside may require registration of the outside computer's i.p. address [please contact Dave Barker at Hanford (barker@ligo-wa.caltech.edu) with the i.p. address].

LSC groups wishing to access this data, including the transfer of subsets to home institutes, must receive authorization from the LIGO Lab Director. Authorization can be requested by way of a letter, as outlined by Rai Weiss at the Livingston LSC meeting. This letter should include (as a minimum):

The original of the letter should be sent to

Barry Barish
Director, LIGO Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
MS 18-34
Pasadena, CA 91125

Copies should also be sent to

Stan Whitcomb (LIGO Detector Group Leader )
California Institute of Technology
MS 18-34
Pasadena, CA 91125

Albert Lazzarini (LDAS Group Leader)
California Institute of Technology
MS 18-34
Pasadena, CA 91125

Rainier Weiss (LSC Spokesman)
LIGO Project
MIT NW17-161
175 Albany St
Cambridge, MA 02139

Keith Riles (LSC Detector Characterization Group Chair)
Randall Laboratory
University of Michigan
500 E. University Ave.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1120

An electronic version of the letter should be sent to kriles@umich.edu for posting on this web page (below) to keep LSC collaborators informed of ongoing analysis based on this data.

Letters to date from LSC groups requesting access to the April 3-4 engineering data: