Three racks hosting the electronics to control the superattenuator where a bench used to acquire the interference pattern is suspended and the electronics to control the optical elements installed on this bench.
On the background, vacuum enclosure of superattenuators are visible.
Credits: The Virgo collaboration/LAPP
Album: Instruments – Computing/Electronics
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Superattenuators are used to suspend the main interferometer mirrors and benches to isolate them from the seismic ground vibrations. Here, a mechanical attenuator, part of a superattenuator, is being installed. The attenuator is then enclose in a vacuum tower.
Credits: Cyril Frésillon/Virgo/Photothèque CNRS
Album: Instruments – Payloads/Suspensions/Mirrors
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Superattenuators are used to suspend the main interferometer mirrors and benches to isolate them from the seismic ground vibrations. Here, a superattenuator, surrounded by a scaffolding, is being installed. The attenuator is then enclose in a vacuum tower.
Credits: Cyril Frésillon/Virgo/Photothèque CNRS
Album: Instruments – Payloads/Suspensions/Mirrors
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