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Benjamin Sheard
Researcher at Max Planck Society
Publications - 43
Citations - 1544
Benjamin Sheard is an academic researcher from Max Planck Society. The author has contributed to research in topics: Interferometry & Laser. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 43 publications receiving 1333 citations. Previous affiliations of Benjamin Sheard include California Institute of Technology & Leibniz University of Hanover.
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Intersatellite laser ranging instrument for the GRACE follow-on mission
Benjamin Sheard,Gerhard Heinzel,Karsten Danzmann,Daniel A. Shaddock,William Klipstein,William M. Folkner +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the top-level architecture of an interferometric laser ranging system designed to demonstrate the technology which can also operate in parallel with the microwave ranging system of the GRACE follow-on mission.
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The Gravitational Universe
Pau Amaro-Seoane,Sofiane Aoudia,Heather Audley,Gerard Auger,S. Babak,John M. Baker,Enrico Barausse,Simon Barke,M. Bassan,Volker Beckmann,M. Benacquista,Peter L. Bender,Emanuele Berti,Pierre Binétruy,J. Bogenstahl,Camille Bonvin,Daniele Bortoluzzi,Nils Brause,Julien Brossard,Saps Buchman,Iouri Bykov,Jordan Camp,Chiara Caprini,A. Cavalleri,Massimo Cerdonio,Giacomo Ciani,M. Colpi,G. Congedo,John Conklin,Neil J. Cornish,Karsten Danzmann,G. de Vine,D.B. DeBra,M. Dewi Freitag,L. Di Fiore,M. Diaz Aguilo,Ingo Diepholz,Rita Dolesi,Massimo Dotti,G. Fernández Barranco,Luigi Ferraioli,Valerio Ferroni,N. Finetti,E. D. Fitzsimons,Jonathan R. Gair,Filippo Galeazzi,Alyssa Garcia,Oliver Gerberding,Lluis Gesa,Domenico Giardini,Ferran Gibert,Catia Grimani,Paul J. Groot,F. Guzman Cervantes,Zoltan Haiman,Hubert Halloin,Gerhard Heinzel,Martin Hewitson,C. Hogan,Daniel E. Holz,Allan Hornstrup,D. Hoyland,C. D. Hoyle,M. Hueller,Scott A. Hughes,Ph. Jetzer,V. Kalogera,N. Karnesis,Mukremin Kilic,Christian J. Killow,William Klipstein,Evgenia Kochkina,N. Korsakova,A. Królak,Shane L. Larson,M. Lieser,Tyson Littenberg,Jeffrey Livas,Ivan Lloro,Davor Mance,Piero Madau,P. Maghami,Christoph Mahrdt,T. R. Marsh,Ignacio Mateos,Lucio Mayer,David E. McClelland,Kirk McKenzie,Sean T. McWilliams,S. Merkowitz,Cole Miller,Shawn Mitryk,J. Moerschell,Soumya D. Mohanty,A. Monsky,Guido Mueller,Vitali Müller,Gijs Nelemans,Daniele Nicolodi,Samaya Nissanke,Miquel Nofrarías,Kenji Numata,F. Ohme,M. Otto,Michael Perreur-Lloyd,Antoine Petiteau,E. S. Phinney,Eric Plagnol,S. E. Pollack,Edward K. Porter,P. Prat,Alix Preston,T. A. Prince,J. Reiche,Douglas O. Richstone,David Robertson,E. Rossi,Stephan Rosswog,Louis J. Rubbo,Ashley J. Ruiter,Jose Sanjuan,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Stephan Schlamminger,Bernard F. Schutz,Daniel Schütze,Alberto Sesana,Daniel A. Shaddock,Sweta Shah,Benjamin Sheard,Carlos F. Sopuerta,A. Spector,Robert Spero,Ruggero Stanga,R. T. Stebbins,G. Stede,Frank Steier,Tamara Sumner,K. X. Sun,Andrew J. Sutton,Takamitsu Tanaka,David B. Tanner,Ira Thorpe,Michael Tröbs,Massimo Tinto,H. B. Tu,Michele Vallisneri,Daniele Vetrugno,Stefano Vitale,Marta Volonteri,Vinzenz Wand,Y. Wang,Gudrun Wanner,H. Ward,Brent Ware,Peter Wass,W. J. Weber,Y. Yu,Nicolás Yunes,Peter Zweifel +158 more
TL;DR: The eLISA mission as discussed by the authors is the first mission to study the entire universe with gravitational waves, and it will offer a wide view of a dynamic cosmos using gravitational waves as new and unique messengers to unveil The Gravitational Universe.
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Observation and characterization of an optical spring
TL;DR: In this paper, an optical spring was observed in a detuned Fabry-Perot resonator in which one mirror is mounted on a flexure so that it has a significant response to radiation pressure.
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In-Orbit Performance of the GRACE Follow-on Laser Ranging Interferometer.
Klaus Abich,Alexander Abramovici,Bengie Amparan,Andreas Baatzsch,Brian Bachman Okihiro,David C Barr,Maxime P Bize,C. Bogan,Claus Braxmaier,Michael J Burke,Kenneth Clark,Christian Dahl,Katrin Dahl,Karsten Danzmann,Mike A Davis,Glenn de Vine,Jeffrey Dickson,S. Dubovitsky,Andreas Eckardt,Thomas Ester,Germán Fernández Barranco,R. Flatscher,Frank Flechtner,William M. Folkner,Samuel Francis,Martin S. Gilbert,Frank Gilles,Martin Gohlke,Nicolas Grossard,Burghardt Guenther,Philipp Hager,Jerome Hauden,Frank Heine,Gerhard Heinzel,M Herding,Martin Hinz,James Howell,Mark Katsumura,Marina Kaufer,William Klipstein,Alexander Koch,Micah Kruger,Kameron Larsen,Anton Lebeda,Arnold Lebeda,Thomas Leikert,Carl Christian Liebe,Jehhal Liu,Lynette Lobmeyer,Christoph Mahrdt,T. Mangoldt,Kirk McKenzie,Malte Misfeldt,Phillip R Morton,Vitali Müller,Alex Murray,Don J Nguyen,K. Nicklaus,Robert Pierce,Joshua Ravich,Gretchen Reavis,J. Reiche,Josep Sanjuan,Daniel Schütze,Christoph Seiter,Daniel A. Shaddock,Benjamin Sheard,Michael Sileo,Robert Spero,Gary D. Spiers,G. Stede,Michelle Stephens,Andrew J. Sutton,Joseph Trinh,Kai Voss,Duo Wang,Rabi T. Wang,Brent Ware,Henry Wegener,Steve Windisch,Christopher Woodruff,Bernd Zender,Marcus Zimmermann +82 more
TL;DR: The Laser Ranging Interferometer (LRI) instrument on the GRACE Follow-On mission has provided the first laser interferometric range measurements between remote spacecraft, separated by approximately 220 km.
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Searching for a stochastic background of gravitational waves with the laser interferometer gravitational-wave observatory
B. Abbott,R. Abbott,Rana X. Adhikari,Juri Agresti,P. Ajith,Benjamin William Allen,R. S. Amin,S. B. Anderson,W. G. Anderson,M. Araya,H. Armandula,Michael C. B. Ashley,S. M. Aston,C. Aulbert,Stanislav Babak,S. Ballmer,B. C. Barish,C. Barker,D. Barker,B. Barr,Pablo Barriga,M. A. Barton,K. Bayer,Krzysztof Belczynski,J. Betzwieser,P. T. Beyersdorf,B. Bhawal,I. A. Bilenko,G. Billingsley,Eric D. Black,K. Blackburn,Lindy Blackburn,David Blair,B. Bland,L. Bogue,R. Bork,Suvadeep Bose,Patrick Brady,Vladimir B. Braginsky,J. E. Brau,A. Brooks,Duncan A. Brown,A. Bullington,A. Bunkowski,Alessandra Buonanno,Alessandra Buonanno,R. Burman,D. Busby,Robert L. Byer,Laura Cadonati,Gianpietro Cagnoli,Jordan Camp,John K. Cannizzo,K. C. Cannon,C. A. Cantley,Junwei Cao,L. Cardenas,Morag M. Casey,C. Cepeda,P. Charlton,S. Chatterji,Simon Chelkowski,Yi Chen,D. Chin,E. Chin,Jong H. Chow,Nelson Christensen,Thomas Cokelaer,C. N. Colacino,R.L. Coldwell,D. Cook,Thomas Corbitt,David Coward,D. Coyne,Jolien D. E. Creighton,T. D. Creighton,David Crooks,A. M. Cruise,A. Cumming,Curt Cutler,J. Dalrymple,E. D'Ambrosio,Karsten Danzmann,Gavin Davies,G. de Vine,D.B. DeBra,Jerome Degallaix,V. Dergachev,Shantanu Desai,R. DeSalvo,S. Dhurandar,A. Di Credico,Marco Aurelio Diaz,J. Dickson,G. Diederichs,A. Dietz,E. E. Doomes,R. W. P. Drever,J. C. Dumas,R. J. Dupuis,P. Ehrens,E. J. Elliffe,T. Etzel,Matthew Evans,T. Evans,Stephen Fairhurst,Yaohui Fan,Martin M. Fejer,Lee Samuel Finn,N. Fotopoulos,A. Franzen,K. Y. Franzen,R. Frey,T. T. Fricke,Peter Fritschel,V. V. Frolov,M. Fyffe,J. Garofoli,I. Gholami,J. A. Giaime,S. Giampanis,Keisuke Goda,Evan Goetz,L. Goggin,Gabriela Gonzalez,S. Gossler,A. Grant,Slawomir Gras,C. Gray,Malcolm B. Gray,J. Greenhalgh,A. M. Gretarsson,D. Grimmett,R. Grosso,Hartmut Grote,S. Grunewald,M. Guenther,R. Gustafson,Boris Hage,Chad Hanna,J. Hanson,C. Hardham,Jan Harms,Gregory M. Harry,Elizabeth Harstad,T. Hayler,J. Heefner,Ik Siong Heng,A. Heptonstall,M. Heurs,Martin Hewitson,Stefan Hild,N. Hindman,E. Hirose,D. Hoak,P. Hoang,D. J. Hosken,J. H. Hough,Eric Howell,D. Hoyland,W. Hua,S. H. Huttner,D. Ingram,M. Ito,Yousuke Itoh,A. Ivanov,D. Jackrel,B. Johnson,W. W. Johnson,D. I. Jones,Gareth Jones,Roger Jones,Li Ju,Peter Kalmus,Vicky Kalogera,D. Kasprzyk,Erik Katsavounidis,K. Kawabe,Seiji Kawamura,Fumiko Kawazoe,W. Kells,F. Ya. Khalili,A. Khan,Chunglee Kim,Peter King,S. Klimenko,K. Kokeyama,V. Kondrashov,Scott Koranda,D. Kozak,Badri Krishnan,P. Kwee,Ping Koy Lam,Michael Landry,B. Lantz,A. Lazzarini,B. Lee,M. Lei,V. Leonhardt,I. Leonor,Kenneth G. Libbrecht,P. Lindquist,N. A. Lockerbie,M. Lormand,M. Lubinski,Harald Lück,B. Machenschalk,M. MacInnis,M. Mageswaran,K. Mailand,M. Malec,V. Mandic,S. Márka,J. Markowitz,E. Maros,I. W. Martin,J. N. Marx,K. Mason,L. Matone,Nergis Mavalvala,R. McCarthy,David E. McClelland,S. C. McGuire,Martin P McHugh,Kirk McKenzie,J. W C McNabb,T. Meier,A. C. Melissinos,G. Mendell,R. A. Mercer,S. Meshkov,E. Messaritaki,C. Messenger,D. Meyers,Eugeniy E. Mikhailov,Subhasish Mitra,V. P. Mitrofanov,Guenakh Mitselmakher,R. Mittleman,O. Miyakawa,Soumya D. Mohanty,G. Moreno,Kasem Mossavi,C. M. Mow-Lowry,A. Moylan,Damien Mudge,Guido Mueller,Helge Müller-Ebhardt,Soma Mukherjee,Jesper Munch,P. G. Murray,E. Myers,J. Myers,G. Newton,Kenji Numata,Brian O'Reilly,Richard O'Shaughnessy,David J. Ottaway,H. Overmier,Benjamin J. Owen,Yi Pan,Maria Alessandra Papa,V. Parameshwaraiah,M. Pedraza,S. Penn,Matthew Pitkin,M. V. Plissi,Reinhard Prix,V. Quetschke,F. J. Raab,D. S. Rabeling,H. Radkins,R. Rahkola,Malik Rakhmanov,K. Rawlins,S. Ray-Majumder,V. Re,H. Rehbein,Stuart Reid,David H. Reitze,L. Ribichini,R. Riesen,K. Riles,B. Rivera,D. I. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,N. A. Robertson,C. Robinson,S. Roddy,A. Rodriguez,A. M. Rogan,J. G. Rollins,Joseph D. Romano,J. Romie,Roger K. Route,Sheila Rowan,Albrecht Rüdiger,L. Ruet,P. Russell,K. Ryan,S. Sakata,M. Samidi,L. Sancho De La Jordana,V. Sandberg,V. Sannibale,S. Saraf,P. Sarin,Bangalore Suryanarayana Sathyaprakash,Shuichi Sato,Peter R. Saulson,R. Savage,Sascha Schediwy,Roland Schilling,Roman Schnabel,R. M. S. Schofield,Bernard F. Schutz,P. Schwinberg,Susan M. Scott,S. E. Seader,Antony C. Searle,B. Sears,Frank Seifert,D. Sellers,A. S. Sengupta,P. Shawhan,Benjamin Sheard,David H. Shoemaker,A. Sibley,X. Siemens,Daniel Sigg,Alicia M. Sintes,B. J. J. Slagmolen,J. Slutsky,J. R. Smith,M. R. Smith,Peter H. Sneddon,Kentaro Somiya,Clive C. Speake,O. Spjeld,Kenneth A. Strain,D. M. Strom,A. L. Stuver,T. Summerscales,Ke Sun,M. Sung,P. J. Sutton,D. B. Tanner,Marco G. Tarallo,R. Taylor,J. Thacker,K. A. Thorne,Kip S. Thorne,Andre Thüring,K. V. Tokmakov,C. Torres,C. Torrie,G. Traylor,Miquel Trias,W. Tyler,D. Ugolini,Carlo Ungarelli,H. Vahlbruch,Michele Vallisneri,M. Varvella,S. Vass,Alberto Vecchio,John Veitch,P. J. Veitch,Sarah J. Vigeland,A. Villar,C. Vorvick,S. P. Vyachanin,S. J. Waldman,L. Wallace,H. Ward,R. Ward,K. Watts,D. Webber,A. Weidner,A. Weinstein,Rainer Weiss,S. Wen,K. Wette,James Whelan,D. M. Whitbeck,S. E. Whitcomb,B. F. Whiting,C. Wilkinson,P. Willems,Benno Willke,I. Wilmut,Walter Winkler,Christopher Wipf,S. Wise,A. G. Wiseman,Graham Woan,Daniel C. Woods,R. Wooley,J. Worden,W. Wu,I. Yakushin,H. Yamamoto,Z. Yan,Shuhei Yoshida,Nicolás Yunes,M. Zanolin,L. Zhang,Chunnong Zhao,N. Zotov,Michael E Zucker,H. zur Mühlen,J. Zweizig +411 more
TL;DR: In this article, the amplitude of a stochastic background of gravitational waves has been shown to be ΩGW × [H0/(72 km s−1 Mpc−1)]2 < 6.5 × 10-5.