Frequency Domain Calibration Error Budget of LIGO Instruments in S6

Document #:

LIGO-T1100071-v9

Document type:

T - Technical notes

Abstract:

Calibration errors of LIGO Instruments in S6, both the known systematics and uncertainties, are explained in detail.

Files in Document:

• pdf file (ErrorBudget.pdf, 5.1 MB)

Other Files:

• sources.tgz (2.7 MB)

Topics:

• Calibration
• Detector

Authors:

• Keita Kawabe
• Imre Bartos
• Ilya Belopolski
• Jonathan Berliner
• Jordi Burguet-Castell
• Ryan DeRosa
• Hernan Daveloza
• Anamaria Effler
• Tobin Fricke
• Gabriela Gonzalez
• Michael Landry
• Grant Meadors
• Gregory Mendell
• Jameson Graef Rollins
• Richard Savage
• Xavier Siemens
• Myungkee Sung
• David Yeaton-Massey

Keywords:

calibration LIGO S6 frequency domain

Notes and Changes:

added examples of how to obtain a single amplitude error bar, to use in combination with a rescaling of h(t) in the searches

Referenced by:

• LIGO-G1400813-v1: Comparison of Best Strain Sensitivity for the iLIGO Science Runs