Scaling of Thermal Noise Measurements

Document #:

LIGO-T1500327-v5

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

I've written up the thermal noise calculation plan and calculations, it's in the attached .pdf. The problem is that my calculations using the equations from Somiya and Yamamoto (2009) don't seem to be giving reasonable numbers. I'm also attaching the Mathematica notebook I've been using so you can see if you can find any errors. I've been through it about 10 times now, and I still can't see what I'm missing. Maybe they have a typo in the paper

Files in Document:

• ThermalNoise_20150721.pdf (449.9 kB)

Other Files:

• 20150722_ThermalNoise.tar.gz (4.3 MB)

Topics:

• Basic R&D

Authors:

• Matthew Abernathy
• Eric Gustafson
• Geoffrey Lovelace

Keywords:

Thermal Noise coatings

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