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The present status of the VIRGO Central Interferometer*
F Acernese1,2, P Amico3, N Arnaud4,5, C Arnault4,5, D Babusci6, G Ballardin7, F Barone1,8, M Barsuglia4,5, F Bellachia4,5, J L Beney4,5, R Bilhaut4,5, M A Bizouard4,5, C Boccara9, D Boget10, F Bondu11, C Bourgoin12, A Bozzi12, L Bracci13,14, S Braccini7, C Bradaschia7, A Brillet11, V Brisson4,5, D Buskulic10, J Cachenaut11, G Calamai13,14, E Calloni1,2, P Canitrot4,5, B Caron10, C Casciano7, C Cattuto3, F Cavalier4,5, S Cavaliere1,2, R Cavalieri7, R Cecchi7, G Cella7, R Chiche4,5, F Chollet10, F Cleva11, T Cokelaer11, S Cortese12, J P Coulon11, E Cuoco13,14, S Cuzon4,5, V Dattilo7, P Y David10, M Davier4,5, M De Rosa1,2, R De Rosa1,2, M Dehamme4,5, L Di Fiore1, A Di Virgilio7, P Dominici13,14, D Dufournaud10, C Eder4,5, A Eleuteri1,15, D Enard12, A Errico12, G Evangelista1,2, L Fabbroni13,14, H Fang6, I Ferrante7, F Fidecaro7, R Flaminio10, J D Fournier11, L Fournier10, S Frasca16,17, F Frasconi7, L Gammaitoni3, P Ganau18, F Garufi1, M Gaspard4,5, G Gennaro7, L Giacobone10, A Giazotto7, G Giordano6, C Girard10, G Guidi13,14, H Heitmann11, P Hello4,5, R Hermel10, P Heusse4,5, L Holloway7, M Iannarelli6, J M Innocent11, E Jules4,5, P La Penna7, J C Lacotte10, B Lagrange18, M Leliboux9, B Lieunard10, O Lodygenski4,5, T Lomtadze7, V Loriette9, G Losurdo13,14, M Loupias11, J M Mackowski18, E Majorana16,17, C N Man11, B Mansoux4,5, F Marchesoni3, P Marin4,5, F Marion10, J C Marrucho4,5, F Martelli13,14, A Masserot10, L Massonnet10, S Mataguez12, M Mazzoni13,14, M Mencik4,5, C Michel18, L Milano1,2, J L Montorio18, N Morgado18, B Mours10, P Mugnier10, L Nicolosi7, J Pacheco11, C Palomba16,17, F Paoletti7, A Paoli12, A Pasqualetti12, R Passaquieti7, D Passuello7, M Perciballi16,17, L Pinard18, R Poggiani7, P Popolizio12, T Pradier4,5, M Punturo3, P Puppo16,17, K Qipiani1, J Ramonet10, P Rapagnani16,17, A Reboux4,5, T Regimbau11, V Reita9, A Remillieux18, F Ricci16,17, F Richard12, M Ripepe13,14, P Rivoirard4,5, J P Roger9, J P Scheidecker11, S Solimeno1,2, R Sottile10, R Stanga13,14, R Taddei7, M Taurigna4,5, J M Teuler12, P Tourrenc11, H Trinquet11, E Turri6, M Varvella1, D Verkindt10, F Vetrano13,14, O Veziant10, A Viceré7, J Y Vinet11, H Vocca3, M Yvert10 and Z Zhang12
Published 11 March 2002 •
Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd
Classical and Quantum Gravity,
Volume 19,
Number 7
Citation F Acernese et al 2002 Class. Quantum Grav.19 1421DOI 10.1088/0264-9381/19/7/325
1 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sez. Napoli, Complesso Universitario di Monte S Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, University of Napoli, 'Federico II', Complesso Universitario di Monte S Angelo, Via Cintia 80126 Napoli, Italy
3 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, sez. Perugia and University of Perugia, Via A Pascoli 06123 Perugia, Italy
4 Laboratoire de l'Accelerateur Lineaire, Orsay, France
5 Universitéde Paris Sud, BP 34, 91898, France
6 INFN Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Via E Fermi 40, 00044 Frascati (Roma) Italy
7 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sez. Pisa, Via Livornese 1291, 56010 S Piero A Grado (Pi), Italy
8 Dipartimento di Scienze Farmaceutiche, University of Salerno, Via Ponte Don Melillo, 84084 Fisciano, Salerno, Italy
9 ESPCI, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
10 LAPP, Chemin de Bellevue, BP 110, 74941, Annecy-le Vieux Cedex, France
11 Observatoire de la Cote d'Azul, BP 4229, 06034 Nice Cedex 4, France
12 EGO, Traversa H di via Macerata, 56021, S Stefano a Macerata (Pi), Italy
13 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sez. Firenze Largo E Fermi 2, 50125 Firenze, Italy
14 University of Urbino, Via S Chiara, 27, 61029, Urbino, Italy
15 Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata ed Informatica, University of Napoli, 'Federico II', Complesso Universitario di Monte S Angelo, Via Cintia, 80126 Napoli, Italy
16 Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sez. Roma I, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
17 Dipartimento di Fisica, University of Roma 'La Sapienza', Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
18 IPNL, 43 Boulevard du 14 Novembre 1918, 69622 Villeurbanne Cedex, Lyon, France
19 Presented by L Di Fiore for the VIRGO Collaboration.
The VIRGO Central Interferometer (CITF) is a short suspended interferometer operated with the central area elements of the VIRGO detector. The main motivation behind the CITF is to allow the integration and debugging of a large part of the subsystems of VIRGO while the construction of the long arms of the antenna is being completed. This will permit a faster commissioning of the full-size antenna. In fact, almost all the main components of the CITF, with the exception of the large mirrors and a few other details, are the same as those to be used for the full-size detector. In this paper the present status of the VIRGO CITF is reported.
