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Phys. Rev. D 30, 732–736 (1984)

Terrestrial gravitational noise on a gravitational wave antenna

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Peter R. Saulson
Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139

Received 27 December 1984; published in the issue dated 15 August 1984

A random gravitational force can be generated by seismic noise, by atmospheric acoustic noise, and by moving massive bodies. An estimate of the gravitational power spectrum at a point on the Earth is given. Such a force is an important source of noise in an interferometric gravitational wave antenna below f=10 Hz.

© 1984 The American Physical Society

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http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.30.732
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10.1103/PhysRevD.30.732
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