Instruments_Payloads/Suspensions/Mirrors

Instruments_Payloads/Suspensions/Mirrors

Mechanical filter of a superattenuator (January 2016)

Installation of a mirror superattenuator (January 2016)

Advanced Virgo optical bench suspended inside its minitower (2016)

View of the superattenuators, platform and scaffholding inside Virgo central building (January 2016)

Advanced Virgo monolithic suspension (October 2015)

Advanced Virgo monolithic suspension, detail around an anchor (October 2015)

Advanced Virgo payload with a monolithic suspension (October 2015)

Suspended North-input payload (July 2015)

Photo of the Advanced Virgo dummy input payload (2015)

Photo of the Advanced Virgo dummy west input payload (2015)

Advanced Virgo dummy west input payload installation (2015)

Installation of the west input dummy payload: in vacuum cabling (2015)

Installation of the west input dummy payload (2015)

Installation of the west input dummy payload (2015)

Installation of the west input dummy payload: insertion inside the tower ('2015)

Installation of the west input dummy payload (2015)

West input dummy payload assembled in clean-room (2015)

Picture of elements of a Virgo suspension

Beam-splitter mirror and its payload suspended inside the tower (2014)

Sketch of a Virgo mirror suspension used to reduce the seismic noise