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Excellent progress continues in eliminating noise sources and increasing detector stability. With the replacement of a somewhat lossy input test mass on the Hanford 4-km x-arm, all three interferometers should now be capable of achieving design sensitivity (approximately 14 Mpc range for the canonical NS-NS inspiral for the 4-km IFOs, approximately 7 Mpc range for the 2-km IFO). Currently, the 4-km IFOs have demonstrated sensitivities in the 11 MPc range and the 2-km IFO in the 4.5-MPc range. S-5 is expected to start on November 4th, 2005 with all three IFOs operating very close to design sensitivity.
Michelson & Morley enter the 21st century...
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