Tool refinement investigations focussed on understanding GW channel
(includes comparisons of existing tools in getting the job done)
* Calibration stability (tracking injected lines & shape changes,
alignment)
Gabriela Gonzalez*, Mike Landry*,
Rana Adhikari, Patrick Brady, Duncan Brown,
Jolien Creighton, Peter Fritschel, Szabi Marka, Brian O'Reilly,
Patrick Sutton
* Violin modes (tracking, thresholding, understanding ring-up)
Sergey Klimenko*, Mario Diaz,
Fred Raab, Natalia Zotov
* Steady-state correlations (e.g., quantify strength, graph in realtime)
Nelson Christensen*, Adrian
Ottewill
* Glitches (rates, causes)
Laura Cadonati*, Erik Katsavounidis*,
Mike Ashley, Stefan Ballmer, Laura Cadonati,
Ed Daw, Masahiro Ito, Sergey Klimenko, Natalia Zotov, John
Zweizig
* Bilinear couplings (quantification, causes)
Steve Penn*, Erika
D'Ambrosio, Biplab Bhawal, Vijay Chickarmane,
Tiffany Summerscales, Dennis Ugolini
General investigations of environment
* Quantify correlated environmental transients between sites
Robert Schofield*, Ray
Frey
* Identify & catalog environmental disturbances
Robert Schofield*, Rauha Rahkola
System verification
* Timing precision
Daniel Sigg*, Szabi Marka
* Data quality
John Zweizig*,
Rana Adhikari, Ed Daw, Peter Fritschel, Gaby Gonzalez,
Brian O'Reilly, Rauha Rahkola, Keith
Riles, Robert Schofield, Peter Shawhan,
Daniel Sigg, Stan Whitcomb
* Data access
Peter Shawhan*
* Data set reduction
Isabel Leonor*
* Hardware astrophysical signal injection
Szabi Marka*, Peter Shawhan*,
Isabel Leonor
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* - Investigation Leader or Co-Leader