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Detector Improvements And Optimization To Advance Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, Varun Srivastava May 2022

Detector Improvements And Optimization To Advance Gravitational-Wave Astronomy, Varun Srivastava

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The thesis covers a range of topics relevant to the current and future gravitational-wave facilities. After the last science observing run, O3, that ended in March 2020, the aLIGO and VIRGO gravitational-wave detectors are undergoing upgrades to improve their sensitivity. My thesis focuses on the work done at the LIGO Hanford Observatory to facilitate these upgrade activities. I worked to develop two novel technologies with applications to gravitational-wave detectors. First, I developed a high-bandwidth, low-noise, flexure-based piezo-deformable mirror for active mode-matching. Mode-matching losses limit improvements from squeezing as they distort the ground state of the squeezed beam. For broadband sensitivity …


Hail Detection Using Dual Polarization Weather Radar, Alfonso Ladino Rincon Aug 2020

Hail Detection Using Dual Polarization Weather Radar, Alfonso Ladino Rincon

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This poster highlights how active remote sensors such as weather radar are completely useful for hail detection given its feature and the information they produce. Hail detection is already well studied by the atmospheric scientific community and dual polarimetric variables values for hail signature are presented according to those advances. Then, a supervised classification technique is showed to illustrated how machine learning can be integrated to radar information for automatic hail detection. However, this fuzzy logic algorithm has the capability to distinguish between meteorological and non-meteorological echoes. This automatic information might help forecasters from National Weather Services – NWS to …


Identification Of The Planetary Boundary Layer (Pbl) Using Upper Air Observation, Elok Suci Wulandari Jul 2020

Identification Of The Planetary Boundary Layer (Pbl) Using Upper Air Observation, Elok Suci Wulandari

English Language Institute

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