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This document outlines assignments related to noise lectures, including deriving radiation pressure noise, summarizing a paper on quantum noise in gravitational-wave interferometers, determining how many stages of pendulums are needed to meet seismic noise requirements for Advanced LIGO, writing about understanding of loss angle from an attached article, and deriving expressions for pendulum and test mass thermal noise in terms of quality factor.

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Assignment NOISE Lectures: Corbitt and Nergis Mavalvala and Write A Short Summary About The Methods of

This document outlines assignments related to noise lectures, including deriving radiation pressure noise, summarizing a paper on quantum noise in gravitational-wave interferometers, determining how many stages of pendulums are needed to meet seismic noise requirements for Advanced LIGO, writing about understanding of loss angle from an attached article, and deriving expressions for pendulum and test mass thermal noise in terms of quality factor.

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Assignment NOISE lectures

Derive radiation pressure noise


Read the paper Quantum Noise in Gravitational-wave Interferometers by Thomas
Corbitt and Nergis Mavalvala and write a short Summary about the methods of
beating the quantum limit
Assuming a seismic noise with D=10-9 m/Hz, for advanced LIGO detector,
theoretically how many stages of 1 Hz pendulum is sufficient to meet the
requirement before thermal noise dominate (Use the noise curve for the 4km
interferometer in lecture 11, slide 8 for thermal noise estimation)? What would be
the corner frequency of such a system?
Read the attached article lossangle and write a paragraph of your understanding
of the loss angle
Derive the expression of pendulum and test mass thermal noise in terms of Q (use
mode expansion approximation for test mass thermal noise). Give a expression for
f>>fp for pendulum, and f<<fi (use the lowest mode) for test mass. What will be
the requirement of the pendulum Q and test mass Q for advanced GW detector?

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