Karsten Danzmann

TL;DR: The Future Gravity Field Satellite Missions (FGM) project as discussed by the authors was a logical consequence of two previous phases in Theme 2 “Observation of the System Earth from Space” in the BMBF/DFG (Federal Ministry of Education and Research/German Research Foundation) Research and Development Programme GEOTECHNOLOGIEN.

TL;DR: IFOCAD as discussed by the authors is a software for simulating laser interferometers using different beam models, including non-astigmatic as well as simple and general astigmatic Gaussian beams in the fundamental mode.

TL;DR: Using a spatially filtered pulsed laser at 486 nm, photoexcited positronium to the 2{ital S} state and detected it via a delayed and spatially separated 532-nm photoionization pulse, indicating that a cw measurement is presently feasible.

TL;DR: The European New Gravitational Wave Observatory (eLISA) as mentioned in this paper is a new mission that will discover and study a variety of cosmic events and systems with high sensitivity: coalescences of massive black holes binaries, brought together by galaxy mergers; mergers of earlier, less-massive black holes during the epoch of hierarchical galaxy and black-hole growth; stellar-mass black holes and compact stars in orbits just skimming the horizons of the galactic nuclei of the present era; extremely compact white dwarf binaries in our Galaxy, a rich source of information about binary evolution and

TL;DR: In this article, the root-sum-square amplitude h rss as a function of waveform morphology was used to detect long-duration gravitational-wave transients from Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo.