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Hydraulic External Pre-Isolator System for LIGO
S. Wen ; R. Mittleman ; K. Mason ; J. Giaime ; R. Abbott ; J. Kern ; B. O'Reilly ; R. Bork ; M. Hammond ; C. Hardham ; B. Lantz ; W. Hua ; D. Coyne ; G. Traylor ; H. Overmier ; T. Evans ; J. Hanson ; O. Spjeld ; M. Macinnis ; K. Mailand ; D. Sellers ; K. Carter ; P. Sarin ;
Date:	23 Sep 2013
Abstract:	The Hydraulic External Pre-Isolator (HEPI) is the first 6 degrees of freedom active seismic isolation system implemented at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO). Implementation was first completed at the LIGO Livingston Observatory (LLO) prior to LIGO’s 5th science run, successfully cutting down the disturbance seen by LLO’s suspended optics in the two most prominent seismic disturbance bands, the microseism (0.1-0.3Hz) and the anthropogenic (1-3Hz) bands, by a factor of a few to tens. The improvement in seismic isolation contributed directly to LLO’s much improved duty cycle of 66.7% and LIGO’s triple coincident duty cycle of 53%. We report the design, control scheme, and isolation performance of HEPI at LLO in this paper. Aided with this success, funding for incorporating HEPI into the LIGO Hanford Observatory was approved and installation is currently underway.
Source:	arXiv, 1309.5685
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