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Quantization of Midisuperspace Models 中超空间模型的量化
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2010-10-14 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2010-6
J. Fernando Barbero G., Eduardo J. S. Villaseñor
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引用次数: 33
Brane-World Gravity Brane-World重力
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2010-09-14 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2010-5
Roy Maartens, Kazuya Koyama
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引用次数: 965
The Pioneer Anomaly 先锋号异常
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2010-09-01 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2010-4
Slava G. Turyshev, Viktor T. Toth
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引用次数: 148
f(R) Theories f (R)的理论
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2010-06-23 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2010-3
Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa
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引用次数: 2791
Cosmic Censorship for Gowdy Spacetimes 高迪太空时报的宇宙审查制度
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2010-04-13 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2010-2
Hans Ringström
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引用次数: 46
Interferometer Techniques for Gravitational-Wave Detection 引力波探测的干涉仪技术
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2010-02-25 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2010-1
Andreas Freise, Kenneth Strain
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引用次数: 59
Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology with Gravitational Waves 物理学,天体物理学和宇宙学与引力波
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2009-12-01 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2009-2
B. S. Sathyaprakash, Bernard F. Schutz
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引用次数: 669
On Special Optical Modes and Thermal Issues in Advanced Gravitational Wave Interferometric Detectors 先进引力波干涉探测器的特殊光学模式和热问题
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2009-12-01 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2009-5
Jean-Yves Vinet
{"title":"On Special Optical Modes and Thermal Issues in Advanced Gravitational Wave Interferometric Detectors","authors":"Jean-Yves Vinet","doi":"10.12942/lrr-2009-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.12942/lrr-2009-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The sensitivity of present ground-based gravitational wave antennas is too low to detect many events per year. It has, therefore, been planned for years to build advanced detectors allowing actual astrophysical observations and investigations. In such advanced detectors, one major issue is to increase the laser power in order to reduce shot noise. However, this is useless if the thermal noise remains at the current level in the 100 Hz spectral region, where mirrors are the main contributors. Moreover, increasing the laser power gives rise to various spurious thermal effects in the same mirrors. The main goal of the present study is to discuss these issues versus the transverse structure of the readout beam, in order to allow comparison. A number of theoretical studies and experiments have been carried out, regarding thermal noise and thermal effects. We do not discuss experimental problems, but rather focus on some theoretical results in this context about arbitrary order Laguerre-Gauss beams, and other “exotic” beams.</p>","PeriodicalId":686,"journal":{"name":"Living Reviews in Relativity","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":40.6,"publicationDate":"2009-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.12942/lrr-2009-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4013060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 38
Null Geodesic Congruences, Asymptotically-Flat Spacetimes and Their Physical Interpretation 零测地线同余、渐近平坦时空及其物理解释
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2009-09-11 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2009-6
Timothy M. Adamo, Carlos Kozameh, Ezra T. Newman
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引用次数: 90
Quasi-Local Energy-Momentum and Angular Momentum in General Relativity 广义相对论中的准局部能量动量和角动量
IF 40.6 2区 物理与天体物理
Living Reviews in Relativity Pub Date : 2009-06-19 DOI: 10.12942/lrr-2009-4
László B. Szabados
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引用次数: 278
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