Overview of KAGRA: Detector design and construction history
Author(s) -
T. Akutsu,
Masaki Ando,
K. Arai,
Y. Arai,
S. Araki,
A. Araya,
N. Aritomi,
Y. Aso,
S. Bae,
Y Bae,
Luca Baiotti,
R. Bajpai,
M. A. Barton,
K. C. Can,
E. Capocasa,
M. Chan,
C Chen,
Kunde Chen,
Yuyan Chen,
Hong-Yu Chu,
Y-K. Chu,
S. Eguchi,
Yutaro Enomoto,
R. Flaminio,
Yoshinori Fujii,
Masataka Fukunaga,
Mitsuhiro Fukushima,
Guiguo Ge,
Masatoshi Hagiwara,
S. Haino,
K. Hasegawa,
H. Hayakawa,
K. Hayama,
Y. Himemoto,
Y. Hiranuma,
N. Hirata,
Eiichi Hirose,
Z. Hong,
B H Hsieh,
C-Z. Huang,
P. Huang,
Y.-J. Huang,
B. Ikenoue,
S. Imam,
Kohei Inayoshi,
Yoshiyuki Inoue,
Kunihito Ioka,
Y. Itoh,
K. Izumi,
K. Jung,
P. Jung,
T. Kajita,
M. Kamiizumi,
Nobuyuki Kanda,
G. Kang,
Kyohei Kawaguchi,
N. Kawai,
T. Kawasaki,
C Kim,
J C Kim,
W. S. Kim,
Y -M Kim,
N. Kimura,
Naoki Kita,
H. Kitazawa,
Y. Kojima,
K. Kokeyama,
K. Komori,
A. K. H. Kong,
Kei Kotake,
C. Kozakai,
R. Kozu,
Rakesh Kumar,
Jun’ya Kume,
C. M. Kuo,
H-S. Kuo,
Sachiko Kuroyanagi,
K. Kusayanagi,
Kyujin Kwak,
H. K. Lee,
Hyung Won Lee,
R Lee,
M. Leonardi,
L. C.-C. Lin,
Chun-Yu Lin,
Feng-Li Lin,
G C Liu,
L.-W. Luo,
M. Marchio,
Yuta Michimura,
N. Mio,
O. Miyakawa,
A. Miyamoto,
Y. Miyazaki,
K. Miyo,
S Miyoki,
S. Morisaki,
Y. Moriwaki,
Koji Nagano,
S Nagano,
K. Nakamura,
Hiroyuki Nakano,
M. Nakano,
R. Nakashima,
T. Narikawa,
R. Negishi,
W.-T. Ni,
A. Nishizawa,
Y. Obuchi,
W Ogaki,
J. J. Oh,
S. H. Oh,
M. Ohashi,
N. Ohishi,
Masashi Ohkawa,
K. Okutomi,
K Oohara,
C. Ooi,
S Oshino,
K. Pan,
H Pang,
J. Park,
F E Peña Arellano,
I. M. Pinto,
Norichika Sago,
Shinya Saito,
Y. Saito,
K Sakai,
Yusuke Sakai,
Y. Sakuno,
S. Sato,
Takashi Sato,
T. Sawada,
T. Sekiguchi,
Y. Sekiguchi,
S. Shibagaki,
Ryuma Shimizu,
Tomofumi Shimoda,
K. Shimode,
H. Shinkai,
T. Shishido,
A. Shoda,
K. Somiya,
Edwin J. Son,
Hajime Sotani,
R. Sugimoto,
Takashi Suzuki,
T. Suzuki,
Hideyuki Tagoshi,
H. Takahashi,
Ryutaro Takahashi,
A. Takamori,
S. Takano,
H. Takeda,
M. Takeda,
H. Tanaka,
K Tanaka,
K. Tanaka,
T Tanaka,
Taiki Tanaka,
S. Tanioka,
E. N. Tapia San Martín,
S. Telada,
T. Tomaru,
Y. Tomigami,
T. Tomura,
F. Travasso,
L. Trozzo,
T. Tsang,
K. Tsubono,
S. Tsuchida,
Toshihiro Tsuzuki,
D. Tuyenbayev,
Nami Uchikata,
Taku Uchiyama,
Atsushi Ueda,
T. Uehara,
K. Ueno,
G. Ueshima,
F. Uraguchi,
T. Ushiba,
Maurice H. P. M. van Putten,
H. Vocca,
J Wang,
Chien-Ming Wu,
H. Wu,
S. Wu,
Wenjing Xu,
Takatoshi Yamada,
K. Yamamoto,
K. Yokogawa,
J Yokoyama,
T. Yokozawa,
T. Yoshioka,
H Yuzurihara,
S. Zeidler,
Yang Zhao,
ZongHong Zhu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
progress of theoretical and experimental physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2050-3911
DOI - 10.1093/ptep/ptaa125
Subject(s) - physics , detector , gravitational wave observatory , telescope , optics
KAGRA is a newly built gravitational-wave telescope, a laser interferometer comprising arms with a length of 3\,km, located in Kamioka, Gifu, Japan. KAGRA was constructed under the ground and it is operated using cryogenic mirrors that help in reducing the seismic and thermal noise. Both technologies are expected to provide directions for the future of gravitational-wave telescopes. In 2019, KAGRA finished all installations with the designed configuration, which we call the baseline KAGRA. In this occasion, we present an overview of the baseline KAGRA from various viewpoints in a series of of articles. In this article, we introduce the design configurations of KAGRA with its historical background.
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