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Antenna pattern for four gravitational wave antennas

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Il Nuovo Cimento C

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The antenna pattern is analysed for four widely spaced cryogenic gravitational wave antennas which are expected to begin operating in coincidence during 1987. Using reasonable assumptions for senstivity, the four-antenna pattern is shown to give between 50% and 80% sky coverage for circularly polarized radiation under the minimum-detection criterion of two-way coincidence. One-hundred percent sky coverage can be achieved if one antenna is reoriented, but this is at the expense of reduced probability for 3-way coincidences.

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  1. Physics Department, University of Western Australia, Western Australia, Australia

    D. G. Blair

  2. Istituto di Fisica dell'Università, Roma

    S. Frasca & G. Pizzellia

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Blair, D.G., Frasca, S. & Pizzellia, G. Antenna pattern for four gravitational wave antennas. Il Nuovo Cimento C 11, 185–191 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02561730

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